Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature

This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and 'auto-exoticist' literature of the late nineteenth century.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and 'auto-exoticist' literature of the late nineteenth century.

Inhalt

Introduction: Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature 1. Pierre Loti's Novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) on Japan's Vulnerability 2. Mori gai's First Modern Japanese Novella The Dancing Girl (1890): A German-Japanese Parable of Meiji Modernization 3. Natsume S seki'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?