Chapter Five. The Novel’s Failure: Shōyō and the Aporia of Realism and Idealism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. ABBREVIATIONS xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. Ninjō and the Early- Modern Novel
7. Chapter One. From Ninjō to the Ninjōbon: Toward the Licentious Novel 27
8. Chapter Two. Questioning the Idealist Novel: Virtue and Desire in Nansō Satomi hakkenden 59
9. PART II. The Age of Literary Reform
10. Chapter Three. Translating Love in the Early- Meiji Novel: Ninjōbon and Yomihon in the Age of Enlightenment 89
11. Chapter Four. Historicizing Literary Reform: Shōsetsu shinzui, Translation, and the Civilizational Politics of Ninjō 120
12. Chapter Five. The Novel’s Failure: Shōyō and the Aporia of Realism and Idealism 149
13. PART III: LATE- MEIJI QUESTIONINGS
14. Chapter Six Ninjō and the Late- Meiji Novel: Recontextualizing Sōseki’s Literary Project 179
15. Epilogue 209
16. NOTES 213
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 255
18. INDEX 273