Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 9881
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- ISBN
- 9780231197236
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Pleasure in Profit is impressive in scale (416 pages; 160 primary sources; 450 secondary sources in Japanese and English; 70 illustrations) and ambitious in scope by unearthing an under researched century of early modern Japanese literature. It is built on extensive archival work, as most of the primary sources examined are only accessible in their original format in Japanese archives. This required intensive periods in Japan culling from a towering number of books kept in libraries/museums and demanded uncommon palaeographic skills to decode them. The analysis uses sophisticated literary theories and engages also with research done on Western popular literature.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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