The Japanese novel of the Meiji Period and the ideal of individualism

by Janet A. Walker

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, 1 , 315, 3 ; previous owner's chopmark on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The Western ideal of individualism had a pervasive influence on the culture of the Meiji period in Japan 1868-1912 . Janet Walker argues that this ideal also had an important influence on the development of the modern Japanese novel. Focusing on the work of four late Meiji writers,

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