Japan in the Victorian Mind: A Study of Stereotyped Images of a Nation, 1850-80 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333404720)

Preface - Chronological Table - List of Illustrations - List of Abbreviations - Map of Japan - Introduction - This Singular Country: British Writers' Thoughts in the Early 1850s on the Future Anglo-Japanese Encounter - Japan and the Edinburgh Publishers, William Blackwood and Sons - Britain, the Happy Suitor of a Fairy Land: About 1860, Immediately after the Conclusion of the Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty - Britain, the Suitor Disillusioned with Japan: In the Last Years of the Tokugawa Regime - In Quest of the Inner Life of the Japanese: The Era of Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1869-72 - The Strange History of this Strange Country: The 1870s, a Decade of Zealous Westernization - Young Japan versus Great Britain: The Reinforcement of the Idea of Britain's Remoteness from Japan - Victorian Travellers in the Elf-land Japan: Their Wish to Fall in Love with Old Japan, 1870-80 - Conclusion - Selected Bibliography - Index

Author: Toshio Yokoyama
ISBN-10: 0333404726
ISBN-13: 9780333404720
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/29/1987
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d