Eastern Encounters: Canadian Women's Writing about the East, 1867-1929

Shoshannah Ganz is Associate Professor of English at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. Her areas of interest include Canadian literature; Canadian literature and ecology; and the influence of Japanese literature and culture on Canadian writers and writing. Shoshannah has published on a number of Canadian authors and co-edited The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy with the University of Ottawa Press in 2008. Her current research looks at the way industry is figured in the literature of Canada and Japan and the impacts of industry on humans and the more-than-human environment. This research extends beyond the literary texts to explore the remaking and remarketing of the post-industrial landscapes of Japan and Canada as tourist destinations.

Dedication
Introduction
1 Sara Jeannette Duncan, Mrs. Howard Vincent and Ellen Agnes Bilbrough: Canadian Travel Writing About Japan, China, and India
2 A Fictional Remembering of India? Anna Leonowens’s Travel Writing
3 The Eastern Threat to Women’s Enfranchisement in Nellie McClung’s Purple Springs
4 Literary Fake or Translating Genius? Onoto Watanna’s Translations of Japanese Literary Motifs from The Tale of Genji in Tama (1910) and The Honourable Miss Moonlight (1912)
5 The Teachings of the Compassionate Beck: Buddhist Philosophy, Pilgrimage, and The House of Fulfilment
Postscript
Acknowledgements
Previously Published
Works Consulted
Index