The Fiction of Tokuda Shusei and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle ClassIn this stimulating study, Richard Torrance provides the first book length English language analysis of the life and works of the eminent Japanese writer Tokuda Shusei (1872 1943). Literary description and analysis, biography, and historical narrative are interwoven to produce not only a literary study of distinction but documentation of the social restructuring that began in the late Meiji period. Shusei believed that literature should speak for the