British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Hardcover, 2019)

Introduction.-?British Romanticism in Asia, 1820-1950: Modernity, Tradition, and Transformation in India and East Asia.-?Section I: Romanticism in Asia: Cross-Cultural Networks.-?The News from India: Emma Roberts and the Construction of Late Romanticism.-?Flora Japonica: Linnaean Connections Between Britain and Japan During the Romantic Period.-?An 'Exot' Teacher of Romanticism in Japan: Lafcadio Hearn and the Literature of the Ghostly.-?On William Empson's Romantic Legacy in China.-?Section II: Colonialism and Resistance.-?Romanticism in Colonial Korea: Coterie Literary Journals and the Emergence of Modern Poetry in the Early 1920s.- "Truth in Beauty and Beauty in Truth": Rabindranath Tagore's Appropriation of John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819).-?Romantic, Rebel, and Reactionary:? The Metamorphosis of Byron in Twentieth-Century China.-?Section III: Nature, Aesthetics, and Translation.-?Nature and the Natural: Translating Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1807/15) into Chinese.- "With Sidewise Crab-Walk Western Writing": Tradition and Modernity in Shimazaki T son and Natsume S seki.-?Of Ponds, Lakes, and the Sea: Sh y , Shakespeare, and Romanticism.-?Section IV: Bodies and the Cosmos.-?Nogami Yaeko's Adaptations of Austen Novels: Allegorising Women's Bodies.-?The Romantic Skylark in Taiwanese Literature: Shelleyan Religious Scepticism in Xu Zhimo and Yang Mu.-?A Japanese Blake: Embodied Visions in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) and Tezuka Osamu's Phoenix (1967-88).- "Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age!":? e Kenzabur and William Blake on bodies, biopolitics, and the imagination.