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