Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Glass Doors of Natsume Sōseki 1
5. Chapter 1. London Underground: A Rhetoric of Melancholy 17
6. Chapter 2. Babashita Traces: Memories and the City 38
7. Chapter 3. Shōhin Episodes: In Search of a Meiji Upbringing 67
8. Chapter 4. Burdens of Domesticity: The Writer and His Family 93
9. Chapter 5. Inside Glass Doors: The Writer at His Desk 117
10. Chapter 6. Literary Portraits: Mentors, Protégés, and Eccentrics 156
11. Chapter 7. Zōshigaya and Beyond: Re-membering Sōseki 188
12. Afterword 195
13. A Sōseki Chronology 199
14. Notes 205
15. Selected Bibliography 255
16. Index 261