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Author Markley, Robert, 1952-

Title The Far East and the English imagination, 1600-1730 / Robert Markley.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  PR438.E36 M37 2006    Available  ---
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.
East Asia -- In literature.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject East Asia -- Civilization.
East Asia.
Civilization.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- East Asian influences.
Great Britain.
ISBN 9780521819442
052181944X