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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book explores how a modern English literary identity was forged by its notions of other traditions and histories, in particular those of China. The theorizing and writing of English literary modernity took place in the midst of the famous quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns. Eun Kyung Min argues that this quarrel was in part a debate about the value of Chinese culture and that a complex cultural awareness of China shaped the development of a 'national' literature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England by pushing to new limits questions of comparative cultural value and identity. Writers including Defoe, Addison, Goldsmith, and Percy wrote China into genres such as the novel, the periodical paper, the pseudo-letter in the newspaper, and anthologized collections of 'antique' English poetry, inventing new formal strategies to engage in this wide-ranging debate about what defined modern English identity. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: China in English Literary Modernity; Chapter 1 China between the Ancients and the Moderns; The Ancients of the Ancients; Tracing Chinese Footsteps; The Fall of Parnassus; China and the Plurality of Worlds; Chapter 2 Robinson Crusoe and the Great Wall of China; A "Poetics of Fortification"; "This Mighty Nothing Call'd a Wall"; "This Back-Door Trade to China"; Mapping China in the Early English Novel. |
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Chapter 3 The New, Uncommon, or Strange: China in The SpectatorPhilosophy at the Tea Table: Addison's Aesthetics of Mercantilism; Garden, Landscape, and the Aesthetics of the New; Poetic Genius, or the Garden in Time; Chapter 4 Oliver Goldsmith's Serial Chinaman; The Foreign Correspondent; Sequence, Serial, and the Orient; Performing Seriality; The Serial Chinaman; Chapter 5 Thomas Percy's Chinese Miscellanies and the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; Relics for Readers: Translating (Gothic) English Antiquity; Gendering China and Romance; Lyric Nation; Notes; Introduction. |
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Chapter 1: China between the Ancients and the ModernsChapter 2: Robinson Crusoe and the Great Wall of China; Chapter 3: China in The Spectator; Chapter 4: Oliver Goldsmith's Serial Chinaman; Chapter 5: Thomas Percy's Chinese Miscellanies; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index. |
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| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 18th century -- Themes, motives.
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English literature -- Chinese influences.
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China -- In literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English literature |
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English literature -- Chinese influences |
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English literature -- Themes, motives |
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Literature |
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China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3 |
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1700-1799 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Min, Eun Kyung, 1967- China and the writing of English literary modernity, 1690-1770. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2018] 1108421938 9781108421935 (OCoLC)1009214578 |
| ISBN |
9781108390026 (electronic bk.) |
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1108390021 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108379793 (electronic bk.) |
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1108379796 (electronic bk.) |
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1108421938 |
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9781108421935 |
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9781108433075 (paperback) |
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