On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontė: Wuthering Heights in Japan - Softcover

Judith Pascoe (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472037404 ISBN 13: 9780472037407

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2019

Synopsis

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontė’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontė is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights, including quite varied and surprising adaptations of the novel. At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontė, as contrasted to the single (or non-existent) English translations of major Japanese writers. Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s Wuthering Heights, Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature. In this and in her previous book, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Pascoe’s engaging narrative innovates a new scholarly form involving immersive research practice to attempt a cross-cultural version of reader-response criticism. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontė will appeal to scholars in the fields of 19th-century British literature, adaptation studies, and Japanese literary history.

About this title

About the Author

Judith Pascoe is George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, which supported work on this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472037404
• ISBN 13: 9780472037407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192