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基本説明
編集・解説：島田孝右（専修大学教授）。風刺の時代を象徴する１８世紀に刊行された、日本を舞台にしたフィクション集。イギリスを日本に譬えて、鋭い筆致でイギリスを風刺している作品が中心。
Full Description
This facsimile collection features eight satirical fictions from eighteenth-century Britain, which use Japan as their main setting. The authors of this fiction include Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, and George Psalmanazar, the most famous literary fraud and imposter of the eighteenth century. English translations of various European works of the period which became very popular in England have also been included within this collection, which will be a valuable primary source to all students of eighteenth-century English literature, and those interested in the image of Japan and the Japanese held by British writers in the early Modern period.
Contents
Volume I George Psalmanazar A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa Anon. Man Unmask'd: Being a Wonderful Discovery Lately Made in the Island of Japan: Written in the Japanese Language by the Spirit of Contradiction, and Translated into English ... by Sir Tristan Nerebegood. Volume II Jolyot de Crebillion, Claude Prosper The Skimmer; or, the History of Tanzai and Neadarne. Volume III Anon. The Perseis; or, Secret Memoirs for a History of Persia. Loon, Van, pseud A Fragment of the Japanese History: Translated from the High Dutch of Mr Van Loon. With notes Volume IV Swift, Jonathan An Account of the Court and Empire of Japan Smollett, Tobias George The History and Adventures of an Atom Volume V Anon., Civan, King of Bungo. By J. M. Le Prince de Beaumont. Translated from the French. By a Young Lady of Fashion, not more than Twelve Years Old.
