The British stake in Japanese modernity : readings in Liberal Tradition and Native Modernism
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 11548
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138630802
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the first extended analysis of Meiji Japan’s rootedness in the empiricist, liberal, and universalist ideas that played a formative role in embedding Britain’s global power over the long eighteenth century. It condenses a range of Japanese commentaries on English and Scottish Enlightenments to show their nation-building capacities, and finds clear traces of this ‘British nationalism’ in foundational, untranslated Japanese texts from the 1840s onwards. It reads key but overlooked late- and post-Meiji literary and philosophical texts as modernist reactions to this heritage, a pioneering, trans-disciplinary approach that also suggests a missing element in debates about ‘global modernism’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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