Jonathan Zwicker
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• Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan Harvard Asia Center, 2006
  
  
• 'The Long Nineteenth-Century of the Japanese Novel' in The Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2006) ed. Franco Moretti et al. [Originally published as 'Il lungo Ottocento del romanzo giapponese' in vol. 3 Storia e geografia, pp. 441-447, Il romanzo 5 vols. (Turin: Einaudi, 2002), ed. Franco Moretti et al.]
  
  
• 'Japan, 1850-1900' in The Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2006) ed. Franco Moretti et al. [Originally published as 'Le cifre del romanzo: Giappone 1850-1900' in vol. 3 Storia e geografia, pp. 379-388, Il romanzo 5 vols. (Turin: Einaudi, 2002), ed. Franco Moretti et al.]
  
  
• 'Understanding Modern Japan' [Book Review of Christopher Benfey's The Great Wave and Ian Buruma's Inventing Japan, 1853-1964], Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. XLIII, no.2 Spring 2004

Work in Progress

• "Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Print: Drama and Cultural Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Edo" [book project]

• Workshop: For a Theory of the Novel of the 21st Century, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford Unviersity, April 20-21, 2007
  
  
• "Individuality in an Age of Reproduction: Prints, Novels, and the Actor's Image in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Midwest Japan Seminar, Oberlin College, April 14, 2007
  
  
• "Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Maps: Kabuki and the Cartographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Association For Asian Studies, Boston, March 23, 2007
  
  
• "Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan," University of Chicago, January 19, 2007
  
  
• "Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Yale University, November 14, 2006
  
  
• "Bakin among the Bostonians: The Japanese Novel in Nineteenth-Century America," The Past and the Future of the Book, Donald Keene Center, Columbia University, October 27, 2006
  
  
• "Individuality in an Age of Reproduction: Prints, Novels, and the Actor's Image in Nineteenth-Century Japan," 11th Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Vienna University, September 2, 2005
  
  
• "Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis October 2, 2004
  
  
• "Commodities of the Imagination: Translation and the Literary Market, Japan c. 1900," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 16, 2004
  
  
• "Commodities of the Imagination: Translation and the Literary Market, Japan c. 1900," Translation Matters: East Asian Literatures in Transnational Perspective, Columbia University, New York, New York, March 26, 2004
  
  
• "Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Tears: Melodrama and Cultural Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Edo," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego California, March 5, 2004
  
  
• "In Search of the Japanese Novel in Nineteenth-Century America: Book History and the New Literary Hermeneutics," Hermeneutical Strategies: Methods of Interpretation in the Study of Japanese Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, November 23, 2003
  
  
• "Puzzling evidence: clues, detection and the scientific mind in the nineteenth-century Japanese novel," Relationships between Science and Literature in the East and the West: an International Seminar, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Florence, Italy, March 29, 2003
  
  
• "'If you don't read the plot, what else is left?': Reading the Chinese Novel in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Modern Japan History Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo, October 26, 2001
  
  
• "Boredom, Tears, and the Pleasures of Reading in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, June 24, 2001
  
  
• "Statistics and the Rise of the Novel in Japan, 1850-1900," Statistics and the Rise of the Novel: Quantatative Evidence and Literary History, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, March 2001
  
  
• "'Commodities of the Imagination': the Translation Industry and the Literary Market in Meiji Japan," The Twelfth Ph.D. Kenkyukai Conference, International House, Tokyo, October 2, 2000
  
  
• "'Robinson Crusoe Stories': Translation, the Novel, and the Literary Market in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, California March 9, 2000