It's #spring and the (Chinese) cherry trees on our Göttingen campus are in full bloom! They remind us of the connection of Asia & the anglophone world, so here come 5 new additions to our collection on that topic 🧵
#newbooks #librarylove #LibSky #LibrarySky #cherryblossom #sakura
Today is #InternationalChildrensBookDay - so book 1 of this 🧵by Sybille A. Jagusch is on depictions of #Japan in 200 years of American #ChildrensBooks - from #travelogues to picture books, adventure stories #folklore & more
#ICBD #AmericanLiterature #Asia #interculturalexchange #LiteraryStudies
Another book for #ICBD #InternationalChildrensBookDay is this essay collection edited by Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher on #Japan 's #StudioGhibli as #adaptations of children's books such as "Howl's Moving Castle", "Earthsea", "Anne of Green Gables" & more
Yu Liu's book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" covers Anglo-Chinese relations 1600-1830 and their influence (via Spinoza) on #RomanticLiterature - e.g. #Coleridge & #Wordsworth - & art & landscape gardening
#Romanticism #EnglishLiterature #China #philosophy #CulturalStudies
In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?
#PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature
The final book in today's 🧵on Asia & the anglophone world: "American Koan" by Ben Van Overmeire - a study on the #zen #koan & self in #autobiographies by Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Kapleau, Ruth Ozeki & others of #AmericanLiterature
FID Anglo-American Culture