Isabella Bird, Victorian Globalism, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
Isabella Bird, Victorian Globalism, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
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伊莎贝拉·伯德、维多利亚时代的全球化和日本不败之路 (1880)
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10.1080/13645145.2017.1301793
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2017
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Stephen Clark and Laurence Williams
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Stephen Clark and Laurence Williams
伊莎贝拉·伯德的《日本不败足迹》（1880 年，写于 1878 年）是罕见的关于亚洲的维多利亚时代游记之一，它不仅在西方赢得了持续的读者群和评论界的声望，而且还经常受到该国读者的重视，它被描述为局外人的富有洞察力的视角。我们对伯德日本旅行写作特刊的介绍为理解本文创建了多个框架。我们将其置于 1850 年后日本的表现和女作家的国家游记、伯德文学生涯的整体发展以及维多利亚时代全球主义的最新理论之中。我们认为，《不败之路》可以同时被解读为激进和保守、同情和谴责、坚定的帝国主义和对后殖民批评的预期，使其成为丰富的研究对象和维多利亚时代旅行写作的重要试金石。如果伯德的写作偶尔似乎证实（并陶醉于）人们对维多利亚时代旅行者的刻板印象，即居高临下、压抑和狭隘，那么它也可以与对已经拥有世界主义意识和乌托邦视野的全球十九世纪的最新理解联系起来。
Isabella Bird’sUnbeaten Tracks in Japan(1880, written 1878) is one of the rare Victorian travelogues about Asia that has not only won continued readership and critical prestige in the West, but has also been frequently valued by readers in the country it describes as an insightful perspective by an outsider. Our introduction to this special issue on Bird’s travel writing of Japan creates multiple frameworks for understanding this text. We position it within post-1850 representations of Japan and travelogues of the country by women writers, the overall development of Bird’s literary career, and recent theories of Victorian globalism. We argue thatUnbeaten Trackscan be read as simultaneously radical and conservative, sympathetic and denunciatory, staunchly imperial and anticipatory of postcolonial critique, making it a rich object of study and an important touchstone in Victorian travel writing. If Bird’s writing occasionally seems to confirm (and to revel in) familiar stereotypes of Victorian travellers as condescending, repressed, and parochial, it can also be linked to more recent understandings of a global nineteenth century already possessing cosmopolitan awareness and utopian horizons.