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An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel Ken K. Ito New edition
An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel
Ken K. Ito
This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society.
368 pages, 6 figures, 2 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 3, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804757775 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 164 × 26 mm · 578 g |