Johnson in Japan / edited by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki ; foreword by Greg Clingham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ogawa, Kimiyo, editor.

Suzuki, Mika, editor.

Clingham, Greg, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Johnson, Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 191 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2021]

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.

Contents:

5. Johnson the Tea Poet: A Scholarly Role Model and a Literary Doctor in Modernizing Japan / MIKA SUZUKI

6. Johnson and Garrick on Hamlet / MIKI IWATA

7. Abyssinian Johnson / NORIYUKI HATTORI

8. Johnson's Prose Style and His Notion of the Periodical Writer / TADAYUKI FUKUMOTO

9. An Analysis of Johnson's View of Knowledge: A Corpus-Stylistic Approach / MASAAKI OGURA

10. Johnson's Final Words: With Particular Reference to Boswell's Dirty Deed on Sastres / HITOSHI SUWABE

Appendix: Johnson's Translated Works and Criticisms in Japanese / COLLECTED BY HIDEICHI ETO

Acknowledgments

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedicaton

Contents

Foreword: Global Johnson by Greg Clingham

Notes on the Text

Introduction / KIMIYO OGAWA AND MIKA SUZUKI

1. A Brief History of Johnsonian Studies in Japan / HIDEICHI ETO

2. Johnson, Biography, and Modern Japan / NORIYUKI HARADA

3. Scientific Curiosity in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / KIMIYO OGAWA

4. Jane Austen and the Reception of Samuel Johnson in Japan: The Domestication of Realism in Soseki Natsume's Theory of Literature (1907) / YURI YOSHINO

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68448-245-3

OCLC:

1202469232