Title Victorian women's travel writing on Meiji Japan : hospitable friendship / Tomoe Kumojima

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Oxford English Monographs Oxford English monographs. Contents Cover -- Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on Japanese Names -- Introduction -- 1. Anglo-Japanese Relations between 1854 and 1912 -- 2. Victorian Travel Literature about Meiji Japan -- 3. Japan in Victorian Literature -- 1: Hospitable Friendship: Victorian Women Travellers and the Praxis of Ethical Relationality -- 1. Fraternal Friendship -- 2. Hospitable Friendship -- 2.1. The Porosity of Being -- 2.2. The Survival of the Feminine -- 2.3. The Political Affordances of Literature -- 2.4. From Paternal Law to Maternal Love -- 2.5. Love -- 2: A Traveller Who Laughs: Isabella Bird and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan -- 1. Porous Being -- 2. Feminine Survival -- 3: A Literary Diplomat: Mary Crawford Fraser and A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan -- 1. Friendships in Letters -- 2. Friendship Fictionalized -- 4: A Scientist in Love: Marie Stopes and A Journal from Japan -- 1. Border-Crossing Love: Marie Stopes and Fujii Kenjirō -- 2. The Literary Community: Marie Stopes and Sakurai Jōji -- Coda -- Bibliography -- 1. Primary -- (a) Manuscripts -- (B) Printed Works -- 2. Secondary -- (a) Contemporary Works -- (b) Later Studies -- Index Summary Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love between Victorian female travellers and Meiji Japanese between 1853 and 1912 Notes Description based on online resource; title from homepage (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed October 6, 2022) Subject Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 -- Travel -- Japan Fraser, Hugh, Mrs., 1851-1922 -- Travel -- Japan Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958 -- Travel -- Japan SUBJECT Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 fast Fraser, Hugh, Mrs., 1851-1922 fast Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958 fast Subject Women travelers -- Japan Women travelers -- Great Britain Interracial friendship. International relations Interracial friendship Travel Women travelers SUBJECT Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan Japan -- History -- Restoration, 1853-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069482 Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069489 Subject Great Britain Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191914317 0191914312 9780192644862 0192644866

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