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Desire and the Prince: New Work on Genji monogatari—A Review Article

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BowringRichard. Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x, 111 pp. £4.50.
FieldNorma. The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xviii, 372 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $12.50 (paper).
ShiraneHaruo. The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of “The Tale of Genji.”Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. xxiv, 276 pp. $45.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Mark Morris
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Toward the end of a diary entry for Sunday, June 14, 1925, the writer reminds herself to “answer Gerald Brenan, & read the Genji; for tomorrow I make a second £20 from Vogue.” For a short review of a long book, £20 was worth a bit of excitement: advertisements in the London press that summer indicate that the yearly wages of a cook or housemaid ranged from £28 to £45. For someone in search of a Bloomsbury flat of one's own, £20 could keep you in modest, furnished comfort on Gordon Square for ten weeks.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , May 1990 , pp. 291 - 304
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990

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