The British Stake in Japanese Modernity: Readings in Liberal Tradition and Native Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781032089119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str.

Michael Gardiner

Opis

This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Part 1

Britishing as Modernisation

2 Liberal Convergences

3 The Scottish Enlightenment in the Meiji Enlightenment: Chambers’s Political Economy; Seiyō Jijō; Meiroku Zasshi;

‘Yoshida-Torajiro’

Part 2

Modernism as Reaction

4 Memory and Historiography: Kokoro, ‘Yagoemon Okitsu no isho’

5 Optics, Progress, and Subjectivity: In’ei Raisan; Fūdo; Yukiguni

6 Tradition and Nationalism: The Sacred Wood; Sekaikan to Kokkakan; Sekaishiteki Tachiba to Nihon; Albyn; ‘England, Your England’

Index

O autorze

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, England. His previous books include The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (2004), At the Edge of Empire: Biography of Thomas B. Glover (2008), and The Constitution of English Literature (2013).