Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan

by Robert Tuck

How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese intellectuals took a striking--but often overlooked--interest in poetry's ties to national character. In Idly Scribbling Rhymers, Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231187343
• ISBN13: 9780231187343
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"