Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste for China argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity.
Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste for China argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity.
Eugenia Zuroski is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: "China" and The Prehistory of Orientalism Chapter 1: The Cosmopolitan Nation, "Where Order in Variety We See" Chapter 2: The Chinese Touchstone of the Tasteful Imagination Chapter 3: Defoe's Trinkets: Fiction's Spectral Traffic Chapter 4: "Nature to Advantage Drest": The Poetry of Subjectivity Chapter 5: How Chinese Things Became Oriental Chapter 6: Disenchanting China: Orientalism and the English Novel Afterword: Rethinking Modern Taste
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: "China" and The Prehistory of Orientalism Chapter 1: The Cosmopolitan Nation, "Where Order in Variety We See" Chapter 2: The Chinese Touchstone of the Tasteful Imagination Chapter 3: Defoe's Trinkets: Fiction's Spectral Traffic Chapter 4: "Nature to Advantage Drest": The Poetry of Subjectivity Chapter 5: How Chinese Things Became Oriental Chapter 6: Disenchanting China: Orientalism and the English Novel Afterword: Rethinking Modern Taste
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