{"product_id":"good-dogs-edification-entertainment-and-kyokutei-bakins-nanso-satomi-hakkenden-hardback-9781939161666","title":"Good Dogs; Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's \"Nansō Satomi Hakkenden\" (Hardback) 9781939161666","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGood Dogs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEdification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's \"Nansō Satomi Hakkenden\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGlynne Walley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781939161666\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e510 pages, 2 color plates - 2 Plates, color\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 1.361 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalley'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 \u003ci\u003eyomihon\u003c\/i\u003e genre is really about.\u003c\/p\u003e (Monumenta Nipponica)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGood 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Nansō Satomi Hakkenden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e(The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern Kazusa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e; for short, Hakkenden), serialized from 1814 to 1842 by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848).\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eGood Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e begin with detailed examinations of Hakkenden as, in turn, a work of gesaku (popular fiction); an adaptation and critique of the Chinese vernacular novel \u003ci\u003eShuihu zhuan\u003c\/i\u003e (J. Suikoden,\u003ci\u003e The Water Margin\u003c\/i\u003e); 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. \u003ci\u003eGood Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell East Asia Series","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52638002905368,"sku":"9781939161666","price":50.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/good-dogs-edification-entertainment-and-kyokutei-bakins-nanso-satomi-hakkenden-hardback-9781939161666","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}