Pleasure in profit: popular prose in seventeenth-century japan
Auteur :
Moretti, Laura
Éditeur :
Columbia University Press
ISBN :
9780231197236
Date de publication :
22 déc. 2020
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres.