Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient

David Vallins is Professor of English at the University of Hiroshima, Japan. His previous publications include Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism (Macmillan, 2000). Kaz Oishi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo, Japan.Seamus Perry is Fellow of Balliol College and Lecturer in English, University of Oxford, UK.

• Introduction Part I: Coleridge, Southey, and the Orient 1. Refusing to Kowtow: Romantic-period Representations of Asian Ceremonials from Macartney to Byron, Peter Kitson 2. Coleridge and William Hodges' Travels in India (1793), Deirdre Coleman 3. Coleridge, Southey, Thalaba and Christabel, Tim Fulford 4. S.T. Coleridge, William Empson, and Japan, Seamus Perry 5. Oriental Dilettantes and Modernity:The Reception of Coleridge in Japan, Kaz Oishi Part II: Coleridge, Philosophy, and the Orient 6. Coleridge, Philosophy, Orient, Andrew Warren 7. Immanence and Transcendence in Coleridge's Orient, David Vallins 8. 'The One Life Within Us and Abroad': Coleridge and Hinduism, Natalie Tal Harries 9. On Artistic Disinterestedness: Coleridge, Kant, and Schopenhauer Compared, Setsuko Wake-Naota Part III: 'Kubla Khan' and Romantic Orientalism 10. The Integral Significance of the 1816 Preface to 'Kubla Khan', Heidi Thomson 11. The Mathematics of Dreams: The Psychological Infinity of the East and Geometric Structures in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', Dometa Wiegand Brothers 12. 'Kubla Khan' and British Chinoiserie: The Geopolitics of Chinese Gardens, Kuri Katsuyama Bibliography Index

[Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient] presents new contributions from both established and emerging scholars ... [It] also includes essays on the reception of the Romantics in Japan and China, thus allowing the collection to register the two-way exchange of texts and ideas between the Orient and the Occident.