Robert Markley

The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730

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Produktbeschreibung

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination. Robert Markley explores the significance of attitudes to the wealth and power of East Asia in rethinking conceptions of national and personal identity in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English literature. Questioning conventional Eurocentric histories, Markley examines the ways in which Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift deal with the complexities of a world in which England was marginalized and which, until 1800, was dominated - economically at least - by the empires of the Far East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780521819442
• ISBN-10: 052181944X
• Artikelnr.: 21216504

Autorenporträt

Robert Markley is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: British literature of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties; 1. The Far East
the East India Company
and the English imagination; 2. China and the limits of Eurocentric history: Milton
the Jesuits
and the Jews of Kaifeng; 3. 'Prudently present your regular tribute': civility
ceremony
and European rivalry in Qing China; 4. Heroic merchants: trade
nationalism
and abjection in Dryden's Amboyna; 5. 'I have now done with my island
and all manner of discourse about it': Crusoe's Farther Adventures in the far east; 6. 'So inexhaustible a treasure of gold': Defoe
credit
and the romance of the South Seas; 7. Gulliver
the Japanese
and the fantasy of European abjection; Epilogue; Bibliography.