The Bloomsbury Handbook of Romanticism in Britain and Asia
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Romanticism in Britain and Asia
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The first comprehensive overview and survey of the emerging subject of British Romanticism and Asia, this book goes beyond the familiar focus on British and European national cultures of Romanticism, showing how romantic period writing is a truly international and global body of work characterised by styles, subjects, and approaches transcending and transgressing familiar borders.
Over the last few decades, Romantic period studies have largely been transformed by studies of travel, exploration, diaspora, race, gender, slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and intercultural encounters and exchanges. New and revisionist studies of British colonialism and imperialism have now situated the study of British Romanticism securely within a global context. The impact of this globalized concern has re-energised interest in the mature fields of Romantic Orientalism and its representations of the 'East' and the long-standing study intercultural encounters.
Featuring essays from the field's foremost international scholars, this volume offers a crucial guide to the contexts, fiction, poetry, drama, translation, and autobiographical writing produced between c.1760 and c.1842 concerning Asian subjects and interests, not only surveying current trends in scholarship but also opening new areas of scholarly debate through the examination of under-researched material.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Romanticism in Britain and Asia. Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India), Peter J. Kitson (University of East Anglia, UK), and Alex Watson (Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan).
Part 1: Histories and Contexts
1. Romanticism in the Colony: Orientalism, Translation, and the Aesthetic unconscious in British India. Baidik Bhattacharya (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India)
2. Romantic Orientalism and Asia. Alex Watson (Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan).
3. The English East India Company, Colonialism, and Empire. Callie Wilkinson (Independent scholar, Canada)
4. Obedient Despots: Indirect Rule and the Lure of Empire in Early British India. Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis, USA)
5. Asian Religions and Romanticism. Chris Murray (Monash University, Australia)
6. Sati, Colonialism, and the Romantic Imagination. Andrea Major (University of Leeds, UK)
7. Circulating Plants: Canton, Calcutta, Kew. Kate Teltscher (University of Roehampton, UK)
8. Romantic Ecology and Asia. Robert E. Markley (University of Illinois, USA)
9. War, Resistance, and Revolt. Peter J. Kitson (University of East Anglia, UK)
Part 2: Peoples, Places, and Cross-Cultural Encounters
10. India (770–1813): Early Anglophone Writing. James Mulholland (North Carolina State University, USA)
11. India (1814–40): Later British Writing. Máire ní Fhlathúin (University of
Nottingham, UK)
12. Remaking British Romanticism: Women Poets in Nineteenth-century India. Mary Ellis Gibson(Colby College, USA)
13. On Ideas of the Bengal Renaissance and the Thing Itself. Rosinka Chaudhuri(Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India)
14. China (1770-1842): From Chinoiserie to Opium. Elizabeth Chang (Independent scholar, USA)
15. Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760–1860. Laurence Williams (Sophia University, Japan)
16. Malay Dreams: Knowledge, History, and Colonial Expansion in Southeast Asia. Christina Skott (Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK)
17. Pan-Buddhism and Heritage-making across Maritime Networks. Himanshu Prabha Ray (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
18. Britain, India, China, and the Opium Trade. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
19. Tea. Markman Ellis (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Part 3: Genres, Styles, and Translations
20. Asiatic Goths and Oriental Gothic. James Watt (University of York, UK)
21. Asia on the British Romantic Stage. David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
22. The Fashion for Kashmiri Shawls in Romantic Britain. Suchitra Choudhury (University of Glasgow, UK)
23. The Chinese Taste in Britain. Stephen McDowall (University of Edinburgh, UK)
24. The Company We Keep: Art, Commerce, Empire. Holly Shaffer (Brown University, USA)
25. Texts and Translation: China. Timothy Barrett (University of London, UK) and Amy Matthewson (University of Birmingham, UK)
26. Translation and Transculturation of English Romantic Poetry in Meiji Japan. Kaz Oishi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
27. Romanticism and Japan in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.Kimiyo Ogaw (Sophia University, Japan)
28. Romanticism and China in the Twentieth Century. Ou Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Index
Product details
| Published | 08 Jul 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 496 |
| ISBN | 9781350371262 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 32 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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