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Book SynopsisThe lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read to recast the social transformations of Chosŏn Korea and the development of early modern Korean literature.
Trade ReviewKinship Novels of Early Modern Korea is a methodologically brilliant introduction to Korean lineage novels and the domestic worlds in which they were produced and consumed. Written as women were becoming ever more constrained by patriarchal kinship ideals, lineage novels are a rich archive of the often unruly emotional responses to the affective restructuring of the domestic realm. -- Maram Epstein, author of
Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late-Imperial Chinese FictionKinship Novels of Early Modern Korea sets an admirable standard for emerging studies of premodern Korean literature with its in-depth historical analysis, theoretical sophistication, and measured, clear writing style. -- Sunyoung Park, author of
The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea offers a captivating story about the rise and fall of the lineage novel, walking us through the ways in which the kinship feelings and practices of elite families cast not only the form and content of this genre but also its production and circulation. Compelling testimony of how our deep understanding of history can help us appreciate the aesthetics of bygone days and why literature still matters. -- Yoon Sun Yang, author of
From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial KoreaIn this sweeping account of the political, social, and cultural life of seventeenth- to early twentieth-century Korea, Ksenia Chizhova provocatively asks, How did Koreans do kinship? Her fascinating answers offer glimpses into the unruly emotions of everyday life and the oft-tumultuous relations between genders and generations. This is early modern Korea as never before seen and literary history at its best. -- Andre Schmid, author of
Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Eloquent, detailed, and original, this book’s account of the lineage trope, vernacular writing, gender, and readership sheds new light on the early modern novel in East Asian literary history. -- Ning Ma, author of
The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and WestAn impressive, well researched book that opens a new vista on the history of premodern Korean literature. . . [Chizhova’s] work deserves highest praise for its meticulous scholarship and fascinating narrative. It will interest scholars and students of Korean literature as well as sociologists/anthropologists who want to learn about the intricate human relationships that reigned in the daily life of elite households in eighteenth-century Korea. -- Martina Deuchler * The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *
This book is a sophisticated and engaging study of early modern Korean lineage novels, and it is highly recommended to anybody with interest in premodern Korea and East Asia, the gender and language politics of literary traditions, and, incidentally, global histor
ies of the novel. -- Wiebke Denecke * Journal of Asian Studies *
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea is a fascinating read, and Chizhova does an excellent job in outlining the development, structure and history of the lineage novel. -- Tony Malone * Tony's Reading List *
Chizhova combines historical and literary criticism superbly, showing broad knowledge of these and other disciplines, especially material culture and gender. Her book is also original in its approach and methodology. -- Francisco Gómez Martos * Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Lineage and the Novel in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910
Part I: Figurations of Chosŏn Kinship1. The Structure of Kinship: Generational Narratives
2. The Texture of Kinship: Vernacular Korean Calligraphy
Part II: The Affective Coordinates of Kinship3. Feelings and the Space of the Novel
4. Feelings and the Conflicts of Kinship
Part III: Reconfiguration5. The Novel Without the Lineage
Notes
References
Index
