Author: Hegel, Robert E., 1943-

novel in seventeenth-century China
Date1981
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherColumbia University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library [M5]
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfDir. Office Gallery
Call NumberPL2436.N783 H343 1981
Descriptionxx, 336 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
NoteThe novel in seventeenth-century China / Robert E. Hegel.
Bibliography: p. [309]-329.
Includes index.
Contents: The world behind the novel: China in the seventeenth century -- The novelists' world: tradition and innovation -- Political realities in fictional garb: past as metaphor for the present -- Man as responsible being: the individual, social role, and heaven -- Self as mind or as body: fictional examinations of identity -- Disaster and renewal in an ordered universe -- Literary innovation and the legacy of seventeenth-century novels -- Appendix I: Literary source materials for several seventeenth-century novels -- Appendix II: Textual histories of various seventeenth-century novels.
SubjectChinese fiction--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--History and criticism Chinese fiction--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911--History and criticism Chinese literature--17th century--History and criticism Chinese novels--17th century--History and criticism
ISBN0231049285
LCCN80-24105
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