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Johnson in Japan

Johnson in Japan

Greg Clingham
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The study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s works such as the Rambler , Rasselas , Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets , and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland , the contributors—all members of the half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese writers, including Natsume Soseki . If the state of Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Pages
214
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Release
October 16, 2020
ISBN
1684482429
ISBN 13
9781684482429

Johnson in Japan

Greg Clingham
0/5 ( ratings)
The study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture. The essays in this collection reflect that history and influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions in Japanese academia today. In examining Johnson’s works such as the Rambler , Rasselas , Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets , and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland , the contributors—all members of the half-century-old Johnson Society of Japan—also engage with the work of other important English writers, namely Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Matthew Arnold, and later Japanese writers, including Natsume Soseki . If the state of Johnson studies in Japan is unfamiliar to Western academics, this volume offers a unique opportunity to appreciate Johnson’s centrality to Japanese education and intellectual life, and to reassess how he may be perceived in a different cultural context.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Pages
214
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Release
October 16, 2020
ISBN
1684482429
ISBN 13
9781684482429

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