Japan in Eighteenth-Century English Satirical Writings

ISBN-13: 9784861660344 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 1720 str.

Shimada Takau

Opis

This facsimile collection features eight satirical fictions from eighteenth-century Britain, which use Japan as their main setting. The authors of this fiction include Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, and George Psalmanazar, the most famous literary fraud and imposter of the eighteenth century. English translations of various European works of the period which became very popular in England have also been included within this collection, which will be a valuable primary source to all students of eighteenth-century English literature, and those interested in the image of Japan and the Japanese held by British writers in the early Modern period.

Spis treści

Volume I George Psalmanazar   A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa Anon. Man Unmask’d: Being a Wonderful Discovery Lately Made in the Island of Japan: Written in the Japanese Language by the Spirit of Contradiction, and Translated into English ... by Sir Tristan Nerebegood.  Volume II  Jolyot de Crebillion, Claude Prosper The Skimmer; or, the History of Tanzai and Neadarne. Volume III  Anon.  The Perseis; or, Secret Memoirs for a History of Persia.  Loon, Van, pseud  A Fragment of the Japanese History: Translated from the High Dutch of Mr Van Loon. With notes Volume IV  Swift, Jonathan  An Account of the Court and Empire of Japan  Smollett, Tobias George  The History and Adventures of an Atom  Volume V  Anon., Civan, King of Bungo. By J. M. Le Prince de Beaumont. Translated from the French. By a Young Lady of Fashion, not more than Twelve Years Old.