CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction

PART I. Ninjō and the Early-Modern Novel

Chapter One

From Ninjō to the Ninjōbon: Toward the Licentious Novel

Chapter Two

Questioning the Idealist Novel: Virtue and Desire in Nansō Satomi hakkenden

PART II. The Age of Literary Reform

Chapter Three

Translating Love in the Early-Meiji Novel: Ninjōbon and Yomihon in the Age of Enlightenment

Chapter Four

Historicizing Literary Reform: Shōsetsu shinzui, Translation, and the Civilizational Politics of Ninjō

Chapter Five

The Novel’s Failure: Shōyō and the Aporia of Realism and Idealism

PART III: LATE-MEIJI QUESTIONINGS

Chapter Six

Ninjō and the Late-Meiji Novel: Recontextualizing Sōseki’s Literary Project

Epilogue

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX