Overview
- Explores the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia
- Challenges Eurocentric assumptions about literary reception and periodis
- Offers a new cultural model of scholarship in which “Asian Romanticism” represents an important part of the Romantic literary tradition
Part of the book series: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English (APLE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Afterword
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Modernity, Tradition, and Transformation in Romantic Literature
- British Literature in Asia
- Western Romantic Ideas of Individuality, Affect, Modernity
- British Colonialism and Literature in Asia
- Asian Romanticism and the Romantic Literary Tradition
- Eurocentrism and Literary Reception
- British and Irish Literature
About this book
Reviews
“For Romanticists working in Asia, or dealing with the international impact of Romanticism, it will be essential reading.” (David Chandler, Essays in English Romanticism, Vol. 44, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alex Watson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at Nagoya University, Japan, and the author of Romantic Marginality: Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page (2012).
Laurence Williams is Associate Professor of English at Sophia University, Japan. He holds a DPhil from Oxford and has previously held Canadian Commonwealth and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowships.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Romanticism in Asia
Book Subtitle: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia
Editors: Alex Watson, Laurence Williams
Series Title: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3001-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3000-1Published: 06 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3001-8Published: 15 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7638
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7646
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 414
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Literature, Asian Literature, Asian Culture, British and Irish Literature