What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism examines the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses that these commodities sparked transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness.
What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism examines the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses that these commodities sparked transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness.
Yin Yuan is an assistant professor of English at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga. Her research interests include British Orientalism, Anglophone literature, and East Asian popular culture and her work has been published in Studies in Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Journal, and SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.
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Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”: Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth-Century Britain 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: England’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”: Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalismin Villette and Little Dorrit Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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