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and Louise Edwards, “Contesting Gender Narratives” (2000); Ayumi
Sasagawa, “Centred Selves and Life Choices” (2004); Yoshion Sugimoto, An
Introduction to Japanese Society (2003); Elise Tipton, “Being Women in Japan”
(2000); and Ann Waswo, Modern Japanese Society (1996). The changing face of
Woman in Japan is a large and acknowledged field of research and therefore
this list does not cover all material available; it includes only the sources I
consider most important. I do not cite all of these texts in the body of my
thesis, however, as established facts, notions and points of view are
reiterated by certain authors.
In constructing the third focus of my thesis, in terms of original
contribution, specifically the roots of G&L, tracing its evolution from New-
romanticism and rewriting the narrative to include Japan, not only in
relation to this movement but also regarding the historical development of
Neo-Gothicism, my major area of research is Art and Design History. This
framework, which I reconstruct in order to develop my own angle,
represents a vast field in terms of literature. However, in identifying the
focus on the Anglo-Japanese transmigration of ideas, particularly a history
of Gothic Revivalism, Aestheticism and Japonisme, I mainly refer to Alison
Adburgham, Liberty’s (1975); Victor Arwas, The Liberty Style (1979); Stephen
Calloway, The House of Liberty (1998); Richard Cork, “The Great Wave”
(DVD) in The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2007); J. Mordaunt Crook, William
Burges (1981); Anna Jackson, “Art and Design: East Asia”, in The Victorian
Vision (2001); Lionel Lambourne, The Aesthetic Movement (1996), and
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