{"title":"The Development of Mark Twain Studies in Japan / 日本におけるマーク・トウェイン研究の営み","authors":"Tsuyoshi Ishihara","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay is an overview of almost a century old history of Mark Twain Studies in Japan. It starts with the discussion on Masajiro Hamada's pioneering English articles on Twain in the 1930s, suggesting that they were in fact the earliest thorough scholarly examinations even outside of Japan that chose to discuss as the central theme Twain's writings of social satire that attacks injustices toward the oppressed. This essay also reveals that, to justify the studies of \"enemy's literature\" during WWII, the wartime discussions on Twain tended to utilize this representative American author as a means to understand \"enemy's characteristics.\" Then, it also suggests that although the negative tone in the wartime discussions on Twain was diminished, this tendency to view Twain as an embodiment of America was inherited by Japanese scholars even after the war. Towards the end, the essay introduces some data that evidence the significant jump in productivity of Twain scholarship in Japan particularly after the 1990s, the time when the Japan Mark Twain Society was founded. In the end, the essay concludes with the introduction to the new trends of the 21st century, such as the globalization of its scholarship and publication of academic journals specialized in Twain Studies.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"1 1","pages":"433 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77995039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Japanizing C19 American Literary Studies / イントロダクション:十九世紀アメリカ文学研究 を日本化する","authors":"Yoshiaki Furui","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For more than half a century, C19 American literary studies in Japan has been a truly active field of study. Why is C19 American literary studies so active in Japan? What is it about C19 American literature that appeals to Japanese scholars? How have C19 authors been received in Japan? To answer these questions, this forum introduces C19 American literary studies in Japan to the scholars in the United States and beyond, with a hope that this forum helps enhance an international scholarly exchange across the Pacific. In today's age of globalization, a mutually affecting influence across national borders would diversify and energize C19 American literary studies, which this forum aims to encourage. By directing attention to the modes of studies different from their own, American literary studies in the US, which is said to have undergone the transnational turn, can make itself transnational by learning what Japanese academics have to say about C19 American literature.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"10 1","pages":"415 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84095848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brook Thomas, Sharon Cameron, Emily Gowen, I. Kolding, M. Crow, Sophia Forster, Rachel S. Ravina, Leslie Leonard, Frederick Douglass, Yoshiaki Furui, Tsuyoshi Ishihara, T. Tatsumi, H. Uno, Tsutomu Takahashi
{"title":"On Our Cover: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lions in the Desert (1897)","authors":"Brook Thomas, Sharon Cameron, Emily Gowen, I. Kolding, M. Crow, Sophia Forster, Rachel S. Ravina, Leslie Leonard, Frederick Douglass, Yoshiaki Furui, Tsuyoshi Ishihara, T. Tatsumi, H. Uno, Tsutomu Takahashi","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Letter</p>","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"1 1","pages":"259 - 264 - 265 - 268 - 269 - 276 - 277 - 282 - 283 - 291 - 293 - 302 - 303 - 329 - 331 - 355 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90041964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Annotated Edition of Frederick Douglass's Unpublished \"Slavery\"","authors":"Leslie Leonard","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Sometime between June of 1894 and his death in February 1895, Frederick Douglass penned a sixty-five-page essay, simply titled \"Slavery.\" While the work was originally intended for publication in an illustrated history from Harvard Publishing Company, it has remained, until now, largely unknown in the Library of Congress archives. The essay appears here along with annotations and an introduction which situates the piece and highlights its continued relevance for modern readers. Douglass's essay speaks cogently to current concerns of continued anti-Black racism and state-sanctioned violence. It similarly offers new insights both for scholars of Douglass's work and for those readers attuned to the long afterlife of slavery in which we still live.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"35 1","pages":"357 - 370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75619454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japanese Approach to Emily Dickinson's Poetry / エミリ・ディキンスンの詩と日本人","authors":"Hiroko Uno","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1931, when the fame of Emily Dickinson was still not well established in her home country, a Japanese scholar, Bunsho Jugaku, evaluated her poetry highly, specifying the unique, concise form of her poems as well as her love of nature. The Emily Dickinson Society of Japan was founded in 1980, eight years prior to the incorporation of the Emily Dickinson International Society in the United States. The fact that Dickinson's poetry is actively studied in Japan may well be due to the characteristics it shares with the Japanese love of nature and our cultural forms such as haiku and black-and-white drawings. According to a Japanese specialist in the history of sciences, Masao Watanabe, to Japanese there is no clear distinction between human beings and living things in nature. Furthermore, Japanese take pleasure in using their imagination to insert the unwritten in a poem or fill the white space in artwork. Tenshin Okakura calls such Japanese aestheticism \"a worship of the Imperfect\" in his book The Book of Tea. Therefore, it could be said that we Japanese are eager to study Dickinson's poetry because we feel in it some affinity with Japanese culture and our love of nature.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"17 1","pages":"443 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84386937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thoreau's Confucianist Turn in Japan / ソローと日本","authors":"Tsutomu Takahashi","doi":"10.1353/jnc.2021.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay brings into focus the transformed configuration of Henry Thoreau in modern and contemporary Japan by looking into social and aesthetic factors. Guided by Takita Yoshiko's preceding study \"Thoreavian Creed in Japan,\" this essay explores the historically predominant approach of reception along with its essential factors, and also attempts to see the changing phases of development in recent years citing translations, scholarship, and publishing industry.","PeriodicalId":41876,"journal":{"name":"J19-The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists","volume":"41 1","pages":"453 - 461"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82214646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}