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British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English)

British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English)

by Alex Watson (Editor), Laurence Williams (Editor)

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Synopsis

This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent scholarship on 'Global Romanticism', this book develops a model for a more reciprocal and cross-cultural model of scholarship, in which 'Asian Romanticism' is recognised as an important part of the Romantic literary tradition. It explores the connections between canonical British Romantic authors (including Austen, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth) and prominent Asian writers (including Nehru, Oe, Soseki, Tagore and Zhimo). In addition, this study challenges Eurocentric assumptions about literary reception and periodisation, focusing on how, from the early nineteenth century, British Romanticism was creatively adapted and transformed by writers in a number of Asian nations.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 436
 Edition: 1st ed. 2019
 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 01 Apr 2019
ISBN 10: 981133000X
ISBN 13: 9789811330001

Author Bio
Alex Watson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at Nagoya University, Japan. He is the author of Romantic Marginality: Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page (2012). More recently, he has authored articles on paratexts in travel writing, Constantin de Volney, J. G. Ballard, Roland Barthes, Robert Southey and John Gibson Lockhart.
Laurence Williams is Associate Professor of English in the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University, Japan. He holds a DPhil from Oxford and was formerly Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and Canadian Commonwealth postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Montreal. He has published in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cambridge Quarterly, and Lumen, and has co-edited a special issue of Studies in Travel Writing (2017) on the Victorian traveler Isabella Bird.