Tomoe Kumojima is a lecturer at Nara Women’s University, Japan. She completed her D.Phil. in English at the University of Oxford and published the thesis as a monograph, Victorian Women’s Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship (Oxford University Press, 2022).Laurence Williams is an associate professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. His publications include British Romanticism in Asia(Palgrave, 2019), co-edited with Alex Watson. He has a D.Phil. in English from Oxford, specializing in British travel writing during the long eighteenth century.

• Chapter 1: Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Anglophone Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.- Section 1: Geopolitics of the Pacific.- Chapter 2: Island Logic, Continent Logic: The travelogues and fictions of the First Opium War.- Chapter 3: An Aesthetic Gateway to Japan: Mount Fuji and the Steamship Arrival in British Travel Writing, 1880–1900.- Chapter 4: Travel Writing on the Date Line: Claiming Lost Days in the Late Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 5: We’ll give up old China and live in Japan: George Grossmith’s Cups and Saucers (1876) and Britain’s Pacific Realignments in the 1870s”.- Chapter 6: Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Song of Rahéro’ and ‘The Feast of Famine’ (1890).- Section 2: Port Interactions and Intermediaries.- Chapter 7: Contact Nodes: Ports, Connection, and the World in Anthony Trollope’s Australia and New Zealand (1873) and The Way We Live Now (1875).- Chapter 8: Seeking Safe Harbour: W. H. G. Kingston’s Pacific Adventure Novels.- Chapter 9. Mutual Interests: Pacific Expansionism and the Reception History of Townsend Harris in Japan and America, 1856–1959.- Chapter 10: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Demystification of the Pacific Copra Trade.- Section 3: Transpacific Identities.- Chapter 11: San Francisco Chinatown as a Romantic Gateway: Transpacific (Dis)continuity in Bret Harte’s ‘Wan Lee, the Pagan’ (1876).- Chapter 12: Literary Diplomacy: Yei Theodora Ozaki, Early Anglo-Japanese Writing, and Transnational Female Networks.- Chapter 13: Joseph Heco’s Autobiographical Abjection.- Chapter 14: Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation.

Tomoe Kumojima is a lecturer at Nara Women’s University, Japan. She completed her D.Phil. in English at the University of Oxford and published the thesis as a monograph, Victorian Women’s Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship (Oxford University Press, 2022).Laurence Williams is an associate professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. His publications include British Romanticism in Asia(Palgrave, 2019), co-edited with Alex Watson. He has a D.Phil. in English from Oxford, specializing in British travel writing during the long eighteenth century.

• Chapter 1: Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Anglophone Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.- Section 1: Geopolitics of the Pacific.- Chapter 2: Island Logic, Continent Logic: The travelogues and fictions of the First Opium War.- Chapter 3: An Aesthetic Gateway to Japan: Mount Fuji and the Steamship Arrival in British Travel Writing, 1880–1900.- Chapter 4: Travel Writing on the Date Line: Claiming Lost Days in the Late Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 5: We’ll give up old China and live in Japan: George Grossmith’s Cups and Saucers (1876) and Britain’s Pacific Realignments in the 1870s”.- Chapter 6: Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Song of Rahéro’ and ‘The Feast of Famine’ (1890).- Section 2: Port Interactions and Intermediaries.- Chapter 7: Contact Nodes: Ports, Connection, and the World in Anthony Trollope’s Australia and New Zealand (1873) and The Way We Live Now (1875).- Chapter 8: Seeking Safe Harbour: W. H. G. Kingston’s Pacific Adventure Novels.- Chapter 9. Mutual Interests: Pacific Expansionism and the Reception History of Townsend Harris in Japan and America, 1856–1959.- Chapter 10: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Demystification of the Pacific Copra Trade.- Section 3: Transpacific Identities.- Chapter 11: San Francisco Chinatown as a Romantic Gateway: Transpacific (Dis)continuity in Bret Harte’s ‘Wan Lee, the Pagan’ (1876).- Chapter 12: Literary Diplomacy: Yei Theodora Ozaki, Early Anglo-Japanese Writing, and Transnational Female Networks.- Chapter 13: Joseph Heco’s Autobiographical Abjection.- Chapter 14: Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation.

Tomoe Kumojima is a lecturer at Nara Women’s University, Japan. She completed her D.Phil. in English at the University of Oxford and published the thesis as a monograph, Victorian Women’s Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship (Oxford University Press, 2022).Laurence Williams is an associate professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. His publications include British Romanticism in Asia(Palgrave, 2019), co-edited with Alex Watson. He has a D.Phil. in English from Oxford, specializing in British travel writing during the long eighteenth century.

• Chapter 1: Pacific Gateways: Trans-Oceanic Anglophone Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.- Section 1: Geopolitics of the Pacific.- Chapter 2: Island Logic, Continent Logic: The travelogues and fictions of the First Opium War.- Chapter 3: An Aesthetic Gateway to Japan: Mount Fuji and the Steamship Arrival in British Travel Writing, 1880–1900.- Chapter 4: Travel Writing on the Date Line: Claiming Lost Days in the Late Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 5: We’ll give up old China and live in Japan: George Grossmith’s Cups and Saucers (1876) and Britain’s Pacific Realignments in the 1870s”.- Chapter 6: Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Song of Rahéro’ and ‘The Feast of Famine’ (1890).- Section 2: Port Interactions and Intermediaries.- Chapter 7: Contact Nodes: Ports, Connection, and the World in Anthony Trollope’s Australia and New Zealand (1873) and The Way We Live Now (1875).- Chapter 8: Seeking Safe Harbour: W. H. G. Kingston’s Pacific Adventure Novels.- Chapter 9. Mutual Interests: Pacific Expansionism and the Reception History of Townsend Harris in Japan and America, 1856–1959.- Chapter 10: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Demystification of the Pacific Copra Trade.- Section 3: Transpacific Identities.- Chapter 11: San Francisco Chinatown as a Romantic Gateway: Transpacific (Dis)continuity in Bret Harte’s ‘Wan Lee, the Pagan’ (1876).- Chapter 12: Literary Diplomacy: Yei Theodora Ozaki, Early Anglo-Japanese Writing, and Transnational Female Networks.- Chapter 13: Joseph Heco’s Autobiographical Abjection.- Chapter 14: Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation.