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

This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent scholarship on ?Global Romanticism?, it develops a reciprocal, cross-cultural model of scholarship, in which ?Asian Romanticism? is recognized as itself an important part of the Romantic literary tradition. It explores the connections between canonical British Romantic authors (including Austen, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth) and prominent Asian writers (including Natsume Soseki, Rabindranath Tagore, and Xu Zhimo). The essays also challenge Eurocentric assumptions about reception and periodization, exploring how, since the early nineteenth century, British Romanticism has been creatively adapted and transformed by Asian writers.

Author: Alex Watson, Laurence Williams

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: Mar 06, 2019

Number of Pages: 414 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 981133000X

ISBN-13: 9789811330001