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Johnson in Japan / ed. by Kimiyo Ogawa, Mika Suzuki.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (213 p.) : 2 b-w images, 4 tablesContent type:
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  • 9781684482450
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 828.6 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Global Johnson -- Introduction -- 1. A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan -- 2. Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan -- 3. Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein -- 4. Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan -- 5. Johnson the Tea Poet -- 6. Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet -- 7. Abyssinian Johnson -- 8. Johnson’s Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer -- 9. An Analysis of Johnson’s View of Knowledge -- 10. Johnson’s Final Words -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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 (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), 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 (1867-1916). 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Global Johnson -- Introduction -- 1. A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan -- 2. Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan -- 3. Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein -- 4. Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan -- 5. Johnson the Tea Poet -- 6. Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet -- 7. Abyssinian Johnson -- 8. Johnson’s Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer -- 9. An Analysis of Johnson’s View of Knowledge -- 10. Johnson’s Final Words -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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 (1750-52), Rasselas (1759), Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779-81), and Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), 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 (1867-1916). 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.

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