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Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation.

Struggling Upward

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    A Hardback by Timothy J. Van Compernolle

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 14/03/2016
      ISBN13: 9780674659797, 978-0674659797
      ISBN10: 0674659791

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      Book Synopsis
      Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation.

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