John Pierre Mertz received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Tokyo from 1986 to 1988, and he has also lived in Nagoya and Kyoto. Since 1990 he has taught Japanese literature and language at North Carolina State University.
"The appearance of John Mertz's new book comes as especially
welcome news, [and it] will take its place as one of the standard
works in the field. It offers us a new and productive framework for
understanding these often elusive Meiji texts [and] is an original
and important contribution to the suddenly flourishing field of
Meiji literature studies."--Michael K. Bourdaghs, The Journal of
Asian Studies
"This study is essential for any consideration of the relation
between politics and literature in modern Japan. It is
well-researched, rich in detail, and informative on a number of
levels."--Richard Torrance, Monumenta Nipponic
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