Before the nation Kokugaku and the imagining of community in early modern Japan / [electronic resource] :
Susan L. Burns.
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- x, 282 p.
- Asia-Pacific .
- e-Duke books scholarly collection. Asia-Pacific. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.
Late Tokugawa society and the crisis of community -- Before the Kojikiden : the divine age narrative in Tokugawa Japan -- Motoori Norinaga : discovering Japan -- Ueda Akinari : history and community -- Fujitani Mitsue : the poetics off community -- Tachibana Moribe : cosmology and community -- National literature, intellectual history, and the new Kokugaku -- Conclusion : imagined Japan(s).