Member Profile
Name:
Dr Daichi Ishikawa
Institution:
Keio University
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Art History
Intellectual/Cultural History
Intellectual/Cultural History
Other societies:
The International Walter Pater Society; The Walter Pater Society of Japan; The Victorian Studies Society of Japan; The English Literary Society of Japan; The Bibliographical Society; The Private Libraries Association; The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan; The John Ruskin Society of Tokyo; The Hearn Society
Research interests:
I am researching (long) 19th-century British literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on British Aestheticism in its global context. My current project investigates the historical connection between curiosity and cosmopolitan aestheticism in various 19th- and early 20th-century writers, including Walter Pater, J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde and Lafcadio Hearn, with the aim to contextualise them within a broader map of curiosity and the history of ideas.