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Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature book cover

1st Edition

Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature

By Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa Copyright 2025
234 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and “autoexoticist” literature of the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the way in which reciprocal processes of transcultural acquisition – by Japan and from Japan – were portrayed in the medium of literature, the book illustrates how literary Japonisme and the wider processes whereby Japan, with its alien... Read more

Introduction: Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature 1. Pierre Loti’s Novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) on Japan’s Vulnerability  2. Mori Ōgai’s First Modern Japanese Novella The Dancing Girl (1890): A German-Japanese Parable of Meiji Modernization  3. Natsume Sōseki’s Fictional Encounter with Britain’s Historical Ghosts in ‘The Tower of London’  4. Lafcadio Hearn’s Exoticizing Modernist Construction of Japan in Kokoro  5. Anglo-Irish Ghost Stories in Japan: Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan 6. Conclusion: Japonisme deconstructed?

Biography

Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa completed her PhD at UCL in Comparative literature in the United Kingdom and figured as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bologna, Italy, and currently works at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in Germany.

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