Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan by Laura Moretti

Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Laura Moretti

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In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers' hunger for books that promised them p...

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