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100 1 $aGardiner, Michael,$d1970-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe British stake in Japanese modernity :$breadings in liberal tradition and native modernism /$cMichael Gardiner.
264 1 $aNew York, New York ;$aLondon :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group$c2020.
264 4 $c©2020
300 $a165 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aRoutledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;$v63
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $a"This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as hastened by the spectre of China in the First Opium War, Japan's modernity was bound up with a convergence with British Newtonian cosmology, something underscored by the British presence in Meiji Japan and the British education of key Meiji state-makers. Moreover the thinking behind Britain's own unification in the long eighteenth century, particularly the Scottish Enlightenment, is echoed strikingly faithfully in the 1860s-70s work of Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nakamura Masanao, and other writers in the 'Japanese Enlightenment'. However, from around the end of the Meiji era, we can see a concerted and pointed response to this British universalism, its historiography, its basis in the sovereign individual subject, and its spatial mapping of the world. Elements of this response can be read in texts including Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, Watsuji Tetsuro's Fudo (Climate and Culture), Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's In'ei Raisan (In Praise of Shadows), Kawabata Yasunari's Yukiguni (Snow Country), and various work of the mid-period Kyoto School. Rarely understood in terms of its British specificity, this response should have something to say to modernist studies more generally, since it aimed at a pluralism and de-universalisation that was difficult for mainstream British modernism itself. Indeed the strength of this de-universalisation may be precisely why these 'native' Japanese modernist tendencies have not much been accepted as modernism within the Anglophone academy, despite this field's apparent widening of its ground in the twenty-first century"--$cSeries title page verso.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zJapan$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zJapan$xEnglish influences.
650 0 $aJapanese literature$yMeiji period, 1868-1912$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aJapan$vLiteratures$xEnglish influences.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xInfluence.
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650 7 $aModernism (Literature)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01024455
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651 7 $aJapan.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204082
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
830 0 $aRoutledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;$vv. 63.
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