edited by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki
contributions by Masaaki Ogura, Hitoshi Suwabe, Hideichi Eto, Noriyuki Harada, Yuri Yoshino, Miki Iwata, Noriyuki Hattori and Tadayuki Fukumoto
foreword by Greg Clingham
Bucknell University Press, 2021
Paper: 978-1-68448-241-2 | Cloth: 978-1-68448-242-9 | eISBN: 978-1-68448-244-3

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

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