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Update date: Sep. 16, 2024
LAURENCE WILLIAMS
ウィリアムズ ローレンス | LAURENCE WILLIAMS
Affiliation and department：
Job title：
Associate Professor
Research field (1)：
Literature - British/English-languag
Research keywords (4)：
Asia-Pacific in English Literature
, Victorian literature
, Eighteenth-century British literature
, Travel writing
Research theme for competitive and other funds (6)：
- 2015 - 2019 Chained Islands: Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Britain and Japan, 1660 - 1853
- 2015 - 2019 The formation of modern civil society and the transition of spiritual culture in the representation of "time" in 18th century Russian literature
- 2015 - 2019 “Chained Islands: Cultural Interactions Between Japan and Britain, 1630-1850”
- 2015 - 2018 The formation of modern civil society and the transition of spiritual culture in the representation of "time" in 18th century Russian literature (co-researcher)
- 2018 - “Positioning Tokyo as Global City: Anglo-American Narratives of the New Japanese Capital, 1868-1922”
- 2012 - 2014 JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, “The Influence of Japan on English Literature and Culture, 1600-1780”
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Papers (8)：
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“‘Like the Ladies of Europe’? Female Emancipation and the ‘Scale of Civilization’ in Victorian Women’s Writing on Japan, 1840-80”. Studies in Travel Writing. 2017. 21. 1. 17-32
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Laurence Williams, Steve Clark. “Isabella Bird, Victorian Globalism, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)”. Studies in Travel Writing. 2017. 21. 1. 1-16
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Laurence Williams. Jonathan Swift and Kaempfer's history of Japan: The origins of the Court and Empire of Japan (1727/28). Notes and Queries. 2016. 63. 1. 79-82
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“Anglo-Chinese Caresses: Civility, Friendship, and Trade in English Representations of China, 1760-1800”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2015. 38. 2. 277-296
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“The Edo Period in English Literature? Japanese Isolationism in the Work of John Locke and Jonathan Swift”. Tohoku Romantic Studies. 2014. 1. 1. 1-18
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MISC (6)：
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Laurence Williams. “Two Boys with a Bladder”, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97). 私の一枚 series (Tohoku Association for Romantic Studies website). 2021
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“Working at a Japanese University: An Attractive Option for International Humanities PhDs?”. Tokyo Humanities Insights (web publication). 2019. 1. 1-15
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(book review) Peter Kitson’s Forging Romantic China. Studies of Romanticism. 2015. 40. 191-195
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“Reframing the Oriental Tale”. Cambridge Quarterly. 2009. 38. 2. 183-187
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“City vices and rural virtues in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer”. The English Review. 2008. 18. 4. 38-41
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Books (13)：
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of British Romanticism and Asia, essay on “Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760-1860”
2025
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Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Narratives and English Literature, 1780-1914
2024
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Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire, essay entitled “Orientalising the British Class System: Exploring the ‘Chinese’ Landscapes of Sir William Chambers, 1740-1775”, 34-59
Edinburgh University Press 2022 ISBN:9781474456470
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Pacific Insularity: Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific, essay titled “Satire Across a ‘Sea of Islands’: Japan and the Pacific in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels” (41-56)
Rikkyo University Press 2021
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Robinson Crusoe in Asia, essay entitled “Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy”, 109-135
2021
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Lectures and oral presentations (31)：
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Chair: “Sexual Politics of Empire” panel, Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress
(2023)
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Co-organizer: “English Literature and the Pacific” symposium, Meiji University, Tokyo
(2023)
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“John Keats and Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”
(48th Japan Association of English Romanticism Conference, Matsuyama University 2022)
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“Re-Evaluating Elizabeth Craven: A Pioneering Eighteenth-Century Traveller and Feminist Writer”
(“What’s in a Name? Re-evaluating marginalized figures from the Early Modern Period in Britain”, King's College London (online presentation) 2022)
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“‘The real melancholy inspired by autumn’: Lafcadio Hearn’s Translations of Japanese Insect Melody”
(Translating British Romanticism in East Asia, Ghent University (online presentation) 2022)
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Professional career (6)：
Awards (5)：
- 2012 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2011 - Canadian Commonwealth Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2006 - Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award (UK)
- 2005 - John Fuller Scholarship in English, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 2000 - Gibbs Prize, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
Association Membership(s) (3)：
Tohoku Association for Romanticism Studies (TARS)
, Japan Association of English Romanticism
, Southeast Asia Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
