Kaz Oishi, Dept. of Language Information Sciences,
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
The University of Tokyo

Publications

My publications include both English and Japanese articles and books.
The following list shows only English ones.
Please refer to the Japanese publication page for my Japanese outputs.

Publication List

  • 2022. “The Aesthetics of Weeds: A Case in Junzaburō Nishiwaki,” co-authored by Yasuo Kobayashi, in Peter Cheyne (ed.), Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life (Routledge), pp. 145-57.
  • 2022. “William Cowper and Suburban Environmental Aesthetics,” in Ve-Yin Tee (ed.), Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class and Empire (Edinburgh University Press), pp. 141-156.
  • 2019. “An ‘Exot’ Teacher of Romanticism in Japan: Lafcadio Hearn and the Literature of the Ghostly,” in Lawrence Williams and Alex Watson (eds.), British Romanticism in Asia (Palgrave), pp. 93-118.
  • 2017. “Contemplation and Philanthropy: Coleridge, Owen, and the ‘Well-Being of Nations,’” in Peter Cheyne (ed.), Coleridge and Contemplation (Oxford University Press), pp. 123-141.
  • 2015. “The Genealogy of The Scientific Sublime: Glaciers, Mountains, and The Alternating Modes of Representation,” in Steven Clark and Tristanne Connolly (eds.), British Romanticism in European Perspective: Into the Eurozone (Palgrave), pp.26-44.
  • 2014. “Two Recollective Journeys to the North: Bashō and Wordsworth,” Wordsworth and Bashō: Walking Poets, ed. Mike Collier (Manchester: Art Editions North/ The Wordsworth Trust), pp.49-51.
  • 2013. Coleridge, Romanticism, and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations (Bloomsbury), 224pp. Co-edited with David Vallins and Seamus Perry.
  • 2011. (Edit and Introduction) Foundations of the National Trust: Lives and Works of Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and H. D. Rawnsley, 5 vols. (Eureka Press).
  • 2011. Cross-Cultural Negotiations: Romanticism, Mobility and the Orient. POETICA 75 (Special Issue), 162pp. Co-edited with Felicity James.
  • 2010. “Unitarian Women and the Cross-denominational Alliance for Philanthropy: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Catharine Cappe, and Catherine Clarkson.” The Johnson Society of Japan (ed.), The Eighteenth-Century British Literature 4 (Kaiseisha), pp. 269-92.
  • 2010. “‘An Unaccountable Diagonal’: Coleridge as a Faltering Unitarian Philanthropist,” IVY 42: 23-41.
  • 2009. “The ‘Scions of Charity’: Cowper, the Evangelical Revival, and Coleridge in the 1790s,” Studies in English Literature (English Version) 50: pp. 45-64.
  • 2007. “The Silence of Abraham’s God: Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter Revisited,” Research Annual Report of the Open University of Japan 25: pp. 109-16.
  • 2006. “An Ideological Map of (Mis)Reading: William Blake and Yanagi Muneyoshi in Early Twentieth-century Japan,” Masashi Suzuki and Steve Clark (eds.), The Reception of Blake in the Orient (Continuum), pp.181-94.
  • 2003. “Convention and Innovation: Wintry Landscapes of Desolation in Pastoral Elegy,” Research Annual Report of the Open University of Japan 21: pp. 147-69.
  • 2000. “Coleridge’s Philanthropy: Poverty, Dissenting Radicalism, and the Language of Benevolence,” Coleridge Bulletin, n.s.15: pp. 56-70.