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Chapter four. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: “Women’s Literature” in Spring and New Life

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter one. Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination 19
  6. Chapter two. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: The Broken Commandment as Hygiene Manual 47
  7. Chapter three. Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing The Family 77
  8. Chapter four. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: “Women’s Literature” in Spring and New Life 114
  9. Chapter five. The Times and Spaces of Nations:The Multiple Chronotopes of Before the Dawn 154
  10. Epilogue. The Most Japanese of Things 191
  11. Notes 199
  12. Works Cited 247
  13. Index 265
The Dawn That Never Comes
This chapter is in the book The Dawn That Never Comes
https://doi.org/10.7312/bour12980-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter one. Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination 19
  6. Chapter two. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: The Broken Commandment as Hygiene Manual 47
  7. Chapter three. Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing The Family 77
  8. Chapter four. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: “Women’s Literature” in Spring and New Life 114
  9. Chapter five. The Times and Spaces of Nations:The Multiple Chronotopes of Before the Dawn 154
  10. Epilogue. The Most Japanese of Things 191
  11. Notes 199
  12. Works Cited 247
  13. Index 265
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