This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and
East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent
scholarship on "Global Romanticism", it develops a reciprocal,
cross-cultural model of scholarship, in which "Asian Romanticism" is
recognized as itself an important part of the Romantic literary
tradition. It explores the connections between canonical British
Romantic authors (including Austen, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and
Wordsworth) and prominent Asian writers (including Natsume Sōseki,
Rabindranath Tagore, and Xu Zhimo). The essays also challenge
Eurocentric assumptions about reception and periodization, exploring
how, since the early nineteenth century, British Romanticism has been
creatively adapted and transformed by Asian writers.