Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel

by Timothy J Van Compernolle

Struggling Upward reconsiders the rise and maturation of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility. Collectively called risshin shusse , these discourses accompanied the spread of industrial capitalism and the emergence of a new nation-state in the archipelago. Drawing primarily on historicist strategies of literary criticism, the book situates the Meiji novel in relation to a range of texts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674659791
• ISBN13: 9780674659797
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"