Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment & Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden

by Glynne Walley

Book Overview

Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nansō Satomi hakkenden (The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern Kazusa; for short, Hakkenden), serialized from 1814 to 1842 by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848). The author argues that in Bakin's hands,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939161665
• ISBN13: 9781939161666
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher