Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nans? Satomi hakken

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Good Dogs

by Glynne Walley

Explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nanso- Satomi hakkenden.

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Publisher Description

Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden (The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern Kazusa; for short, Hakkenden), serialized from 1814 to 1842 by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848). The author argues that in Bakin's hands, popular fiction functioned to mobilize and hybridize high culture and low, official and heterodox ideologies, and the demands of both the moralist and the marketplace. Good Dogs begin with detailed examinations of Hakkenden as, in turn, a work of gesaku (popular fiction); an adaptation and critique of the Chinese vernacular novel Shuihu zhuan (J. Suikoden, The Water Margin); and an exercise in kanzen choaku, "encouraging virtue and chastising vice." Then it explores how the novel's blend of didacticism and playfulness destabilizes the putatively moral categories of gender, species, and social class, while foregrounding an image of moral agency that prefigures modern individualism. Good Dogs combines close readings of Hakkenden with a consideration of the novel's place in 19th-century Japan (including its Meiji reception), as well as its place in East Asian vernacular fiction.

Author Biography

Glynne Walley is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Oregon. His research interests involve popular literature and how it negotiates the requirements of industry and genre, the demands of mass audience, and the aspirational pull of "serious" literature.

Review

Walley's book makes an invaluable contribution to the study of Edo-period Japanese literature and culture, and, more specifically, to the understanding of what the yomihon genre is really about. * Monumenta Nipponica *

Long Description

Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nanso Satomi hakkenden (The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern Kazusa; for short, Hakkenden), serialized from 1814 to 1842 by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848). The author argues that in Bakin's hands, popular fiction functioned to mobilize and hybridize high culture and low, official and heterodox ideologies, and the demands of both the moralist and the marketplace. Good Dogs begin with detailed examinations of Hakkenden as, in turn, a work of gesaku (popular fiction); an adaptation and critique of the Chinese vernacular novel Shuihu zhuan (J. Suikoden, The Water Margin); and an exercise in kanzen choaku, "encouraging virtue and chastising vice." Then it explores how the novel's blend of didacticism and playfulness destabilizes the putatively moral categories of gender, species, and social class, while foregrounding an image of moral agency that prefigures modern individualism. Good Dogs combines close readings of Hakkenden with a consideration of the novel's place in 19th-century Japan (including its Meiji reception), as well as its place in East Asian vernacular fiction.

Review Quote

"Walley's book makes an invaluable contribution to the study of Edo-period Japanese literature and culture, and, more specifically, to the understanding of what the yomihon genre is really about."

Details ISBN1939161665 Author Glynne Walley Series Cornell East Asia Series ISBN-10 1939161665 ISBN-13 9781939161666 Format Hardcover Imprint Cornell University East Asia Program Place of Publication Ithica Country of Publication United States Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-05-31 Pages 510 Publisher Cornell University Press Short Title Good Dogs Language English DEWEY 895.63/34 UK Release Date 2018-05-31 AU Release Date 2018-05-31 NZ Release Date 2018-05-31 US Release Date 2018-05-31 Illustrations 2 Plates, color Audience Age 18 Subtitle Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nans Satomi hakkenden" Alternative 9781939161864 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • ISBN-13: 9781939161666
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's Nanso Satomi Hakkenden
  • Item Height: 229mm
  • Author: Glynne Walley
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Topic: Literature
  • Item Width: 152mm
  • Item Weight: 57g
  • Number of Pages: 510 Pages

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