Practices of the Sentimental Imagination - Melodrama, the Novel and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Figures and Tables xiii Introduction: Approaching the Archive---Numbers, Form, and the Seriousness of Sentiment 1(12) The Short Nineteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth Century, and the Garden of Literary Forms 13(58) Tears, the Book, and the History of the Literary Function 13(4) Japan's Two Nineteenth Centuries 17(11) ``Furthermore, There is a Garden of Literary Forms'' 28(19) ``A Community with No Visible Presence'': Print and the Social Imaginary 47(24) Under the Spell of Tears 71(54) A Sociological Experiment 71(4) Segawa's Ghost 75(10) The Sea Cucumber and the Crab 85(24) The Sorcerer and His Magic: Tamenaga Shunsui and the Economy of Sentiment 109(16) The Archaeology of Misplaced Ideas 125(44) A World Without Walls 125(3) Importing the Novel to Japan: Nagasaki circa 1800 128(13) Robinson Crusoe Stories 141(14) Books from Nanjing, Books from Paris 155(14) The Long Road Ahead 169(37) Saikaku, Tolstoy, and the Serial Novel 169(7) The Fraternization of Impossibilities 176(15) The Politics of Tears 191(15) Epilogue: Commodities of the Imagination 206(17) Reference Matter Character List 223(4) Works Cited 227(16) Index 243