TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moretti,Laura
TI  - Pleasure in profit: popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan 
SN  - 9780231552059
AV  - PL747 .P543 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Japanese prose literature
KW  - Edo period, 1600-1868
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Popular literature
KW  - Japan
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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