7. From Communal Performance to Solitary Reading: The Rise of the Modern Japanese Reader

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword: A Walker in the City: Maeda Ai and the Mapping of Urban Space xi
5. Introduction: Refiguring the Modern: Maeda Ai and the City 1
6. LIGHT CITY, DARK CITY: VISUALIZING THE MODERN
7. 1. Utopia of the Prisonhouse: A Reading of In Darkest Tokyo 21
8. 2. The Panorama of Enlightenment 65
9. 3. The Spirits of Abandoned Gardens: On Nagai Kafū’s ‘‘The Fox’’ 91
10. PLAY, SPACE, AND MASS CULTURE
11. 4. Their Time as Children: A Study of Higuchi Ichiyō’s Growing Up (Takekurabe) 109
12. 5. Asakusa as Theater: Kawabata Yasunari’s The Crimson Gang of Asakusa 145
13. 6. The Development of Popular Fiction in the Late Taishō Era: Increasing Readership of Women’s Magazines 163
14. TEXT, SPACE, VISUALITY
15. 7. From Communal Performance to Solitary Reading: The Rise of the Modern Japanese Reader 223
16. 8. Modern Literature and the World of Printing 255
17. CROSSING BOUNDARIES IN URBAN SPACE
18. 9. Ryūhoku in Paris 275
19. 10. Berlin 1888: Mori Ōgai’s ‘‘Dancing Girl’’ 295
20. 11. In the Recesses of the High City: On Sōseki’s Gate 329
21. AFTERWORD 351
22. Contributors 375
23. Index 377