Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Glass Doors of Natsume Sōseki Chapter 1. London Underground: A Rhetoric of Melancholy Chapter 2. Babashita Traces: Memories and the City Chapter 3. Shōhin Episodes: In Search of a Meiji Upbringing Chapter 4. Burdens of Domesticity: The Writer and His Family Chapter 5. Inside Glass Doors: The Writer at His Desk Chapter 6. Literary Portraits: Mentors, Protégés, and Eccentrics Chapter 7. Zōshigaya and Beyond: Re-membering Sōseki Afterword A Sōseki Chronology Notes Selected Bibliography Index