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The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism

Janet A. Walker

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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, she analyzes their contribution to the development of a type of novel whose aim was the depiction of the modern Japanese individual.
Professor Walker suggests that Meiji novels of the individual provided their readers with mirrors in which to confront their new-found sense of individuality. Her treatment of these novels as confessions allows her to discuss the development of modern Japanese literature and "the modern literary self" both in themselves and as they compare their prototypes and analogues in European literature.
The author begins by examining the evolution of a literary concept of the inner self in Futabatei Shimei's novel Ukigumo (The Floating Clouds), Kitamura Tokoku's essays on the inner life, and Tayama Katai's I-novel Futon (The Quilt). She devotes the second half of her book to Shimazaki Toson, the Meiji novelist who was most influenced by the ideal of individualism. Here she traces Toson's development of a personal ideal of selfhood and analyzes in detail two examples of the lengthy confessional novel form that he created as a vehicle for its expression.
Janet A. Walker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Livingston College, Rutgers University.

Originally published in 1979.

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Aestheticism, Romanticism, Kusunoki Masashige, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Individualism, Man and Wife (novel), Culture hero, Public morality, Émile Zola, Confessional writing, Utilitarianism, Japanese language, Self-love, The Modern World (novel), Japanese painting, Motoori Norinaga, Buddenbrooks, Puritans, Modern Fiction (essay), Natsume Soseki, Poetry, Masaoka Shiki, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Superiority (short story), Spirituality, Culture of Japan, Philosophy, Confucianism, Liberalism, Buddhism, Classicism, Meiji Restoration, Monogatari, Romantic poetry, Ishikawa Takuboku, Neo-Confucianism, Matsuo Basho, Writing, Meiji period, Kokugaku, August Strindberg, Christianity, Literature, Critical Essays (Orwell), Edo period, Japanese literature, Hagakure, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Zuihitsu, Shibusawa Eiichi, Ibid (short story), Novelist, Ninomiya Sontoku, Victorian morality, The Anatomy of Dependence, Morality, Futabatei Shimei, Ihara Saikaku, Japanese poetry, Autobiographical novel, Bildungsroman, Kenzaburo Oe, Haijin, Pen name, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Yamato-damashii, Yoshiko, Shinto, The Cossacks (novel), Japanese garden