This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts.

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, England. His previous books include The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (2004), At the Edge of Empire: Biography of Thomas B. Glover (2008), and The Constitution of English Literature (2013).

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Part 1

Britishing as Modernisation

2 Liberal Convergences

3 The Scottish Enlightenment in the Meiji Enlightenment: Chambers's Political Economy; Seiyo Jijo; Meiroku Zasshi;

'Yoshida-Torajiro'

Part 2

Modernism as Reaction

4 Memory and Historiography: Kokoro, 'Yagoemon Okitsu no isho'

5 Optics, Progress, and Subjectivity: In'ei Raisan; Fudo; Yukiguni

6 Tradition and Nationalism: The Sacred Wood; Sekaikan to Kokkakan; Sekaishiteki Tachiba to Nihon; Albyn; 'England, Your England'

Index