4. Arresting Change: Okamoto Kidò’s Stories of Nostalgic Remembrance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Names and Romanization xiii
5. 1. Introduction: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature 1
6. 2. Affirmations of Authority: Premodern and Early Meiji Crime Literature 22
7. 3. Borrowing the Detective Novel: Kuroiwa Ruikò and the Uses of Translation 58
8. 4. Arresting Change: Okamoto Kidò’s Stories of Nostalgic Remembrance 98
9. 5. Anxieties of Influence: Edogawa Ranpo’s Horrifying Hybrids 132
10. Coda: Cultural Borrowing Reconsidered 174
11. Notes 179
12. Bibliography 201
13. Index 209
14. About the Author 218