The chapter discusses how British periodicals from the 1870s to the 1890s portrayed Japan and, more specifically, its process of modernization, in the context of a growing public interest towards Japan (and also in light of the developing Anglo-Japanese alliance). It argues that in British periodicals Japan worked as a mirror to some British fears, exposing the dystopian dangers at the heart of modernization.
‘Happier when her veil was drawn close’: Japan and the Perils of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
Favi Sonia
2025-01-01
Abstract
The chapter discusses how British periodicals from the 1870s to the 1890s portrayed Japan and, more specifically, its process of modernization, in the context of a growing public interest towards Japan (and also in light of the developing Anglo-Japanese alliance). It argues that in British periodicals Japan worked as a mirror to some British fears, exposing the dystopian dangers at the heart of modernization.
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