East

Japanese: 《イースト》 - いーすと
East

…He was once a professor of modern history at Cambridge University. Influenced at a young age by Carlyle's criticism of industrial society and J.D. D. Morris, who advocated Christian socialism, he wrote novels on social issues, such as East (1848) and Alton Locke, the Tailor-Poet (1850), which vividly depicted the lives of the poor in rural areas and London. However, after the decline of Chartism, he turned to fantasy novels such as Hypatia (1853), set in 5th century Alexandria, and Sail Away! (1855), which depicts the battle with Spain in the Elizabethan era, as well as The Children of the Water (1863), a fantasy about a poor boy living underwater. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "East" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ケンブリッジ大学の近代史教授を務めたこともある。彼は若くしてカーライルの産業社会批判と,〈キリスト教社会主義〉を唱えたJ.F.D.モーリスの影響を受け,社会問題をテーマとした小説《イースト》(1848)および《オルトン・ロック,仕立屋詩人》(1850)を書き,農村やロンドンの貧民たちの生活を迫力をもって描いた。しかしチャーチズムの衰退後は5世紀のアレクサンドリアを舞台とした《ハイパシア》(1853),エリザベス時代のスペインとの戦いを描く《西へ出航!》(1855)などの伝奇的歴史小説,貧しい少年が海中の生活を送るファンタジー《水の子たち》(1863)などに転じた。…

※「《イースト》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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