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Pleasure in Profit
Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
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In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres.
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Laura Moretti is senior lecturer in premodern Japanese studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Emmanuel College. She is the author of Recasting the Past: An Early Modern “Tales of Ise” for Children (2016).
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Peter Burke, author of Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe:
In this exemplary study, Laura Moretti challenges the conventional wisdom in her choice of texts (outside the literary canon), in her treatment of genres (as ‘porous’), and in her approach (comparative). Her book should appeal to students of comparative literature as well as to specialists on Japan.
In this exemplary study, Laura Moretti challenges the conventional wisdom in her choice of texts (outside the literary canon), in her treatment of genres (as ‘porous’), and in her approach (comparative). Her book should appeal to students of comparative literature as well as to specialists on Japan.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Note to Readers
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Introduction: Reclaiming the Great Unread
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1. The Culture of the Written Word
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2. The Publishing Business
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3. Negotiating the Way
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4. Civility Matters
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5. Say It in a Skillful Letter
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6. A Commitment to the Present
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7. The Triumph of Plurality
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Epilogue: Wayfinding
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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January 29, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780231552059
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66 b&w photographs
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9780231552059
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Professional and scholarly;
