Format:
1 online resource (ix, 228 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780191914317
Series Statement:
Oxford English monographs
Content:
"Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan" examines forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and intimacy between Victorian female travel writers and Meiji Japanese. Drawing on unpublished primary sources and contemporary Japanese literature hithero untranslated into English it highlights the open subjectivity and addective relationality of Isabella Bird, Mary Crawford Fraser, and Marie Stopes in their interactions with Japanese hosts. The book demonstates how travel narratives and literary works about non-colonial Japan complicate and challenge Oriental stereotypes and imperial binaries. It traces the shifts in the representation of Japan in Victorian discourse from obsequious mousmé to virile samurai alongside transitions in the Anglo-Japanese bilateral relationship and global geopolitical events.
Content:
Hospitable friendship: Victorian women travellers and the praxis of ethical relationality -- A traveller who laughs: Isabella Bird and Unbeaten tracks in Japan -- A literary diplomat: Mary Crawford Fraser and A Diplomatist's wife in Japan -- A scientist in love: Marie Stopes and A journal from Japan
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198871439
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kumojima, Tomoe Victorian women's travel writing on Meiji Japan Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ISBN 0198871430
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198871439
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198871439.001.0001
