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A taste for China : English subjectivity and the prehistory of Orientalism /

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"Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China. Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese objects throughout the long...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuroski Jenkins, Eugenia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Series:Global Asias.
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Orientalism in literature.
Chinese diaspora in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Orientalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Chinese diaspora in literature
English literature
Orientalism in literature
Englisch
Literatur
Orient.
Chinoiserie
China.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
1700-1799
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "China" and The Prehistory of Orientalism
  • The Cosmopolitan Nation, "Where Order in Variety We See"
  • The Chinese Touchstone of the Tasteful Imagination
  • Defoe's Trinkets: Fiction's Spectral Traffic
  • "Nature to Advantage Drest": The Poetry of Subjectivity
  • How Chinese Things Became Oriental
  • Disenchanting China: Orientalism and the English Novel
  • Afterword: Rethinking Modern Taste.