Japan in Print
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Berry |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2007-08 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780520254176 |
ISBN 13 | : 0520254171 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.