The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism

Janet A. Walker

The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
8 April 2019
Pages
336
ISBN
9780691656441

The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism

Janet A. Walker

The Western ideal of individualism had a pervasive influence on the culture of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912). Janet Walker argues that this ideal also had an important influence on the development of the modern Japanese novel. Focusing on the work of four late Meiji writers, she analyzes their contribution to the development of a type of no

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