Lost in a World of Books: Reading and Identity in Pre-War Japan

This paper forms part of a Literature Compass cluster on Modern Book History. The full cluster is made up of the following articles: 'Between Then and Now: Modern Book History', Kate Longworth, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00474.x. 'Ezra Pound's Cantos: A Compact History of Twentieth-Century Authorship, Publishing and Editing', Mark Byron, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00475.x. ' "The Making of the Book": Roy Fisher, the Circle Press and the Poetics of Book Art', Matthew Sperling, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00476.x. 'Bakhtinian "Journalization" and the Mid-Victorian Literary Marketplace', Dallas Liddle, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00477.x. 'Manuscript in Print: The Materiality of Alternative Comics', Emma Tinker, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00478.x. 'Lost in a World of Books: Reading and Identity in Pre-War Japan', Susan C. Townsend, Literature Compass 4 (2007), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00479.x.