Description |
viii, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-302) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : British literature of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- The Far East, the East India Company, and the English imagination -- China and the limits of Eurocentric history : Milton, the Jesuits and the Jews of Kaifeng -- "Prudently present your regular tribute" : civility, ceremony, and European rivalry in Qing China -- Heroic merchants : trade, nationalism, and abjection in Dryden's Amboyna -- "I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it" : Crusoe's Farther adventures in the Far East -- "So inexhaustible a treasure of gold" : Defoe, credit, and the romance of the South seas -- Gulliver, the Japanese, and the fantasy of European abjection -- Epilogue : the ideology of trade. |
Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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East Asia -- In literature.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
Subject |
East Asia -- Civilization.
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East Asia. |
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Civilization. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- East Asian influences.
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Great Britain. |
ISBN |
9780521819442 |
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052181944X |
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