British Gothic Monsters in East Asian Culture: Ideas to Kick-Start Reading and Viewing
1 British Gothic monsters in East Asian culture: ideas to kick-start reading and viewing Dr Sarah Olive (Investigator, York, UK), Dr Alex Watson (Investigator, Nagoya, Japan), Dr Chelsea Swift (Research Assistant, York, UK) We gratefully acknowledge funding received from the Daiwa Foundation and ESRC York Impact Acceleration Account in 2017. We also acknowledge those who contributed to revising this document, originally produced in 2016, in late 2017/early 2018: Marie Honda (PhD candidate, Waseda), Samantha Landau (Showa Women’s University), Nicola McClements (student, SOAS), Lindsay Nelson (Meiji University), Jack Charles Tourner (student, SOAS), Atsuhiko Uchida (MA candidate, York), Ying Zou (PhD candidate, York). This annotated biblio/film/discography came out of a priming project funded by the University of York’s Culture and Communications Research Champions funding during summer 2016, as well as the ‘Gothic in Japan’ symposium led by Watson and Olive in January 2018 (for details see https://www.alexwatson.info/gothic-in-japan). Sharing it as a resource is intended to offer starting points for teachers, students and researchers interested in the influence of British Gothic monsters (with a focus largely on the nineteenth century) on twentieth- and twenty-first century East Asian culture. It is not intended to be definitive or representative: rather, in the spirit of Open Science, these are texts we have found interesting and useful in discussing British Gothic Monsters in East Asian culture. The rationales for the project are that existing research focuses almost predominantly on identifying Orientalism in British Gothic monster texts. This is despite the fact that for over two hundred years, British Gothic literature has been highly popular in East Asia, inspiring a slew of adaptations & reinventions i.e.
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