China and the writing of English literary modernity, 1690-1770
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2018.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42043712*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: China and the modern: redefining English literary modernity
- China between the ancients and the moderns
- Robinson Crusoe and the Great Wall of China
- The new, uncommon, or strange: China in the spectator
- Oliver Goldsmith's serial Chinaman
- Thomas Percy's Chinese miscellanies and the reliques of ancient English poetry.
