The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East

The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Text and Conventions Adopted
1 A Metaphysics of Buddhism and its History in the West
	Introduction
	Core Issues Outlined the Letters of George Milbry Gould and Basil Hall Chamberlain
		Dr George Milbry Gould
		Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain
	Hearn\'s Reception in the West
	The Existing Scholarship on Hearn\'s Buddhism
	The Advent of Buddhism to the West
	The European Discovery of Buddhism in \'British\' India
	Buddhism a Radical Metaphysic
	Buddhism a Construct, a Story
	Edwin Arnold\'s The Light of Asia (1879)
	Conclusion
2 Biographical and Critical Studies of Hearn
	Introduction
	The ad hominem Nature of Biographical and Critical – ‘Bio- critical’ – Works on Hearn
	The Bio-critical Memes of Hearn Studies
	Biographies and Bio-critical Works on Hearn
		Elizabeth Bisland’s Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
		George Milbry Gould’s Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (1908)
		Hearn’s Work Denigrated by Attacking the Man
		Hearn’s Ancestry and Vision Attacked
		Hearn’s Going ‘Fantee’ and His Abandonment of a Loving Father-God
		George M. Gould Collection of Hearniana: a Testimony to Obsession and Fearfulness
		The History of Gould’s Encounter with Hearn and Gould’s Deprecation of Hearn on Grounds of Defective Vision
		Hearn is ‘the Poet of Myopia’
		Gould’s Fatherly Theism
		God as ‘Biologos’ Creating out of Dead Matter the Garden of the World
		‘Karma’: a Tale Told for its Teller
	Post-Gould, pre-World War I Critical Biographies of Hearn
		Joseph De Smet’s Lafcadio Hearn: L’homme et l’oeuvre (1911) and Edward Thomas’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912)
		Nina Kennard’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912)
		Yone Noguchi’s Lafcadio Hearn in Japan (1910)
		Setsuko Koizumi’s Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (1918), Kazuo Koizumi’s Father and I: Memories of Lafcadio Hearn (1935), and Re-Echo (1957)
	Critical Biographies of Hearn Written between the Two World Wars
		Edward Larocque Tinker’s Lafcadio Hearn’s American Days (1924)
		Jean Temple’s Blue Ghost: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1931) and Oscar Lewis’s Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy (1930)
		Hearn – an Interpreter of Buddhism
		Kenneth Kirkwood’s Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn (1936)
	Critical Biographies of Hearn Written after World War II
		Vera McWilliams’s Lafcadio Hearn (1946)
		Orcutt William Frost’s Young Hearn (1958)
		Elizabeth Stevenson’s The Grass Lark: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1961)
		The Dorothea McClelland Papers
	Critical Biographies of Hearn in the 1960s and 1970s
		Albert Mordell’s Discoveries: Essays on Lafcadio Hearn (1964)
		Beongcheon Yu’s An Ape of Gods: The Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn (1964), Arthur Kunst’s Lafcadio Hearn (1969), and Kenneth Rexroth’s The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1977)
	Contemporary Biographies of Hearn
		Paul Murray’s Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio
Hearn (1993)
		Jonathan Cott’s Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn (1991)
		Robert Rosenstone’s Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan (1988)
	Conclusion
3 Buddhism in the American Writings and \'Seeking the Orient at Home\'
	Introduction
	Hearn\'s First Encounters with Buddhism
		Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia
		Atheism and Individual Responsibility in The Light of Asia
		Causation, Karma, Reincarnation, and the Interrelation of all Phenomena in The Light of Asia
		Buddhism a Revisioning of ‘the Self’
		Buddhism a Revisioning of the Problem of Death
		Hearn’s Buddhism Ontological, not Moralistic
	Articles about Buddhism
		The Times-Democrat a ‘Buddhist Newspaper’, an ‘Infidel sheet’
		‘The People We Send Missionaries To’
		‘The World’s Worships’
		‘What Buddhism Is’
		‘Recent Buddhist Literature’
	Articles about the Hindu-Buddhist Matrix and Other \'Oriental\' Subjects
		‘Edwin Arnold’s New Book’
		The ‘Neo-Buddhism of the Theosophists’
	Herbert Spencer\'s \'Synthetic Philosophy\' and Buddhism
	Hearn\'s Translations of Buddhist Stories and His Neo-Buddhist Fictions
		Stray Leaves From Strange Literature
		‘The Legend of the Monster Misfortune’
		‘A Parable Buddhistic’
		‘Pundari’
		‘Yamaraja’
		‘The Lotus of Faith’
	Hearn\'s \'fantastics\' and Ghost Stories Meditations on Love and Death
		Background to the ‘fantastics’
		‘When I was a Flower’
		‘A Dead Love’
		‘His Heart is Old’
		‘Hereditary Memories’
		‘Metempsychosis’
		‘The Undying One’
		‘The Story of Ming-Y’
	Hearn\'s Cosmic \'fantastics\'
		‘Subhadra’
		‘The Life of Stars’ and ‘The Destiny of Solar Systems’
		‘The Great “I-Am”’ and ‘A Concord Compromise’
	Conclusion
4 Japan and the \'Romance of Reality\'
	Introduction
	\'Popular\' or \'Lower\' Buddhism
		‘From the Diary of an English Teacher’
		‘The Writings of Kōbōdaishi’ and ‘Jizō’
		‘A Pilgrimage to Enoshima’
		‘At the Market of the Dead’, ‘By the Japanese Sea’, and ‘From Hōki to Oki’
	Shinto
		‘Bon-Odori’ and ‘The Household Shrine’
	Individual Observations of Reality Hearn\'s Buddhist Meditations
		‘My First Day in the Orient’
	The \'Shock of Emptiness\'
		‘From a Traveling Diary’
		‘In the Twilight of the Gods’
	Three Central Essay-Meditations
		The ancestors, karma
		‘The Idea of Preëxistence’
		‘Some Thoughts About Ancestor-Worship’
		‘Nirvana: A Study in Synthetic Buddhism’
	Three Central Story-Meditations
		‘Dust’
		‘The Stone Buddha’
		‘In Yokohama’: Closing the Cycle of the ‘Buddhist papers’
	The Buddhist Writings of the Last Years
	\'Insect-Studies\'
		‘Story of a Fly’, ‘Fireflies’, ‘Gaki’, ‘Kusa-Hibari’, and ‘Mosquitoes’
	Stories with Buddhist Settings
		‘Within the Circle’
		‘The Story of a Tengu’
		‘A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu’
		‘Fragment’ and the Fenollosas
		Ernest Fenollosa’s Attack on Hearn in The Atlantic Monthly
	Oneness
		‘A Drop of Dew’
		‘Of Moon-Desire’
	The Paradise of Possible Worlds
	Time-Travel and Ghost Stories
		‘The Reconciliation’
		‘The Story of Itō Norisuké’
	Conclusion
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
	Hearn’s Writings
	Secondary Texts
Index