Table of Contents: The aesthetics of strangeness :

Main Author:	Brecher, W. Puck.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Subjects:	Art, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868. Eccentrics and eccentricities > Japan. Aesthetics, Japanese > History.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10764688

Table of Contents:

Introduction: strange interpretations
Contexts of strangeness in 17th century Japan
Cultural eccentricity and its vanguard
Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies
Kinsei kijinden and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric
Strangeness in the early 19th century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion
Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa.