The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan 9780824839123

Eccentric artists are “the vagaries of humanity” that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the co

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I. Contexts of Strangeness
Chapter 1. Strange Interpretations
Chapter 2. Contexts of Strangeness in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Part II. Discourses on Difference in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 3. Strange Tastes Cultural Eccentricity and Its Vanguard
Chapter 4. Strange Thoughts: A Confluence of Intellectual Heterodoxies
Chapter 5. Eccentrics of Recent Times and Social Value Biography Reinvents the Eccentric
Part III. Finishers and Failures of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 6. Strangeness in the Early Nineteenth Century Commercialism, Conservatism, and Diffusion
Chapter 7. Reevaluating Strangeness in Late Tokugawa
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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