The neo-buddhist writings of Lafcadio Hearn : : light from the East /

The neo-buddhist writings of Lafcadio Hearn : : light from the East / / Antony Goedhals.

The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East by Antony Goedhals offers radical rereadings of a misunderstood and undervalued Victorian writer. It reveals that at the metaphysical core of Lafcadio Hearn’s writings is a Buddhist vision as yet unappreciated by his critics and biogra...

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Superior document:East and West ; 7
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Goedhals, Antony,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:East and West ; 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on the Text and Conventions Adopted
  • 1 A Metaphysics of Buddhism and Its History in the West
  • Introduction
  • Core Issues Outlined: the Letters of George Milbry Gould and Basil Hall Chamberlain
  • Dr George Milbry Gould
  • Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain
  • Hearn’s Reception in the West
  • The Existing Scholarship on Hearn’s Buddhism
  • The Advent of Buddhism to the West
  • The European Discovery of Buddhism in ‘British’ India
  • Buddhism a Radical Metaphysic
  • Buddhism a Construct, a Story
  • Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia (1879)
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Biographical and Critical Studies of Hearn
  • Introduction
  • The ad hominem Nature of Biographical and Critical – ‘Bio-critical’ – Works on Hearn
  • The Bio-critical Memes of Hearn Studies
  • Biographies and Bio-critical Works on Hearn
  • Elizabeth Bisland’s Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
  • George Milbry Gould’s Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (1908)
  • Hearn’s Work Denigrated by Attacking the Man
  • Hearn’s Ancestry and Vision Attacked
  • Hearn’s going ‘Fantee’ and his Abandonment of a Loving Father-God
  • George M. Gould Collection of Hearniana: a Testimony to Obsession and Fearfulness
  • The History of Gould’s Encounter with Hearn and Gould’s Deprecation of Hearn on Grounds of Defective Vision
  • Hearn is ‘the Poet of Myopia’
  • Gould’s Fatherly Theism
  • God as ‘Biologos’ Creating out of Dead Matter the Garden of the World
  • ‘Karma’: a Tale Told for its Teller
  • Post-Gould, pre-World War I Critical Biographies of Hearn
  • Joseph De Smet’s Lafcadio Hearn: l’Homme et l’œuvre (1911) and Edward Thomas’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912)
  • Nina Kennard’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912)
  • Yone Noguchi’s Lafcadio Hearn in Japan (1910)
  • Setsuko Koizumi’s Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (1918), Kazuo Koizumi’s Father and I: Memories of Lafcadio Hearn (1935), and Re-Echo (1957)
  • Critical Biographies of Hearn Written between the Two World Wars
  • Edward Larocque Tinker’s Lafcadio Hearn’s American Days (1924)
  • Jean Temple’s Blue Ghost: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1931) and Oscar Lewis’s Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy (1930)
  • Hearn – An Interpreter of Buddhism
  • Kenneth Kirkwood’s Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn (1936)
  • Critical Biographies of Hearn Written after World War II
  • Vera McWilliams’s Lafcadio Hearn (1946)
  • Orcutt William Frost’s Young Hearn (1958)
  • Elizabeth Stevenson’s The Grass Lark: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1961)
  • The Dorothea McClelland Papers
  • Critical Biographies of Hearn in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Albert Mordell’s Discoveries: Essays on Lafcadio Hearn (1964)
  • Beongcheon Yu’s An Ape of Gods: The Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn (1964) , Arthur Kunst’s Lafcadio Hearn (1969), and Kenneth Rexroth’s The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1977)
  • Contemporary Biographies of Hearn
  • Paul Murray’s Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn (1993)
  • Jonathan Cott’s Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn (1991)
  • Robert Rosenstone’s Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan (1988)
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Buddhism in the American Writings and ‘Seeking the Orient at Home’
  • Introduction
  • Hearn’s First Encounters with Buddhism
  • Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia
  • Atheism and Individual Responsibility in The Light of Asia
  • Causation, Karma, Reincarnation, and the Interrelation of all Phenomena in The Light of Asia
  • Buddhism a Revisioning of ‘the Self’
  • Buddhism a Revisioning of the Problem of Death
  • Hearn’s Buddhism Ontological, not Moralistic
  • Articles about Buddhism
  • The Times-Democrat a ‘Buddhist Newspaper’, an ‘Infidel sheet’
  • ‘The People We Send Missionaries To’
  • ‘The World’s Worships’
  • ‘What Buddhism Is’
  • ‘Recent Buddhist Literature’
  • Articles about the Hindu-Buddhist Matrix and Other ‘Oriental’ Subjects
  • ‘Edwin Arnold’s New Book’
  • The ‘Neo-Buddhism of the Theosophists’
  • Herbert Spencer’s ‘Synthetic Philosophy’ and Buddhism
  • Hearn’s Translations of Buddhist Stories and His Neo-Buddhist Fictions
  • Stray Leaves From Strange Literature
  • ‘The Legend of the Monster Misfortune’
  • ‘A Parable Buddhistic’
  • ‘Pundari’
  • ‘Yamaraja’
  • ‘The Lotus of Faith’
  • Hearn’s ‘fantastics’ and Ghost Stories: Meditations on Love and Death
  • Background to the ‘fantastics’
  • ‘When I was a Flower’
  • ‘A Dead Love’
  • ‘His Heart is Old’
  • ‘Hereditary Memories’
  • ‘Metempsychosis’
  • ‘The Undying One’
  • ‘The Story of Ming-Y’
  • Hearn’s Cosmic ‘fantastics’
  • ‘Subhadra’
  • ‘The Life of Stars’ and ‘The Destiny of Solar Systems’
  • ‘The great “I-Am”’ and ‘A Concord Compromise’
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Japan and the ‘Romance of Reality’
  • Introduction
  • ‘Popular’ or ‘Lower’ Buddhism
  • ‘From the Diary of an English Teacher’
  • ‘The Writings of Kōbōdaishi’ and ‘Jizō’
  • ‘A Pilgrimage to Enoshima’
  • ‘At the Market of the Dead’, ‘By the Japanese Sea’, and ‘From Hōki to Oki’
  • Shinto
  • ‘Bon-Odori’ and ‘The Household Shrine’
  • Individual Observations of Reality: Hearn’s Buddhist Meditations
  • ‘My First Day in the Orient’
  • The ‘Shock of Emptiness’
  • ‘From a Traveling Diary’
  • ‘In the Twilight of the Gods’
  • Three Central Essay-Meditations
  • The ancestors, karma
  • ‘The Idea of Preëxistence’
  • ‘Some Thoughts About Ancestor-Worship’
  • ‘Nirvana: A Study in Synthetic Buddhism’
  • Three Central Story-Meditations 170
  • ‘Dust’
  • ‘The Stone Buddha’
  • ‘In Yokohama’: closing the cycle of the ‘Buddhist papers’
  • The Buddhist Writings of the Last Years
  • ‘Insect-Studies’
  • ‘Story of a Fly’, ‘Fireflies’, ‘Gaki’, ‘Kusa-Hibari’, and ‘Mosquitoes’
  • Stories with Buddhist Settings
  • ‘Within the Circle’
  • ‘The Story of a Tengu’
  • ‘A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu’
  • ‘Fragment’ and the Fenollosas
  • Ernest Fenollosa’s Attack on Hearn in The Atlantic Monthly
  • Oneness
  • ‘A Drop of Dew’
  • ‘Of Moon-Desire’
  • The Paradise of Possible Worlds
  • Time-Travel and Ghost Stories
  • ‘The Reconciliation’
  • ‘The Story of Itō Norisuké’
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Hearn’s Writings
  • Secondary Texts
  • Index.

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