Japan in the Victorian Mind by Toshio Yokoyama

Japan in the Victorian Mind by Toshio Yokoyama

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Japan in the Victorian Mind by Toshio Yokoyama

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
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ISBN 13 9780333404720
ISBN 10 0333404726
Title Japan in the Victorian Mind
Author Toshio Yokoyama
Series St Antony's Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year published 1987-03-29
Number of pages 253
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