Title Pleasure in profit : popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan / Laura Moretti

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Reclaiming the Great Unread -- The Culture of the Written Word -- The Publishing Business -- Negotiating the Way -- Civility Matters -- Say It in a Skillful Letter -- A Commitment to the Present -- The Triumph of Plurality -- Epilogue: Wayfinding Summary "The late seventeenth century was a time of peace in Japan, and consequently, schools and culture flourished even for non-elites. Although publishing for vernacular-only (i.e., not literary Sinitic) readers was big business, both Japanese and Western scholarship has largely ignored these books, concentrating instead on a narrative of the development of the novel in the seventeenth century, culminating in the writings of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693). In Pleasure in Profit, Laura Moretti studies lowbrow seventeenth-century literature on its own terms, and in doing so, not only presents a much more accurate picture of prose at this time but also contributes to our understanding of Japanese non-elites--for instance, how key principles of Buddhism and Confucianism spread to the populace--and comparative popular culture, showing that this literature was no different from the French bibliothèque bleue, British chapbooks, or the Russian literature of lubok"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Laura Moretti is senior lecturer in premodern Japanese studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Emmanuel College Print version record Subject Japanese prose literature -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism Popular literature -- Japan -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese Japanese prose literature -- Edo period Popular literature Japan Genre/Form Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020012017 ISBN 9780231552059 023155205X

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