China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770Cambridge University Press, 19.04.2018 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 Min argues that this quarrel was in part a debate about the value of Chinese culture and that a complex cultural awareness of China shaped the development of a 'national' literature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England by pushing to new limits questions of comparative cultural value and identity. Writers including Defoe, Addison, Goldsmith, and Percy wrote China into genres such as the novel, the periodical paper, the pseudo-letter in the newspaper, and anthologized collections of 'antique' English poetry, inventing new formal strategies to engage in this wide-ranging debate about what defined modern English identity. |
Inhalt
Chapter 1 China between the Ancients and the Moderns | 15 |
Chapter 2 Robinson Crusoe and the Great Wall of China | 47 |
China in The Spectator | 89 |
Chapter 4 Oliver Goldsmiths Serial Chinaman | 125 |
Chapter 5 Thomas Percys Chinese Miscellanies and the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | 164 |
Notes | 200 |
Bibliography | 249 |
Index | 272 |
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Addison aesthetic Altangi Ancient and Modern antiquity argues ballads barbarous beauty British Cambridge century China Chinese garden Chinese language Chinese letters chinoiserie claims classical commerce critics Crusoe’s Daniel Defoe Defoe Defoe's Early Modern East India edition eighteenth Eighteenth-Century Empire England English Literature essay Europe European Farther Adventures fiction genius genre global Gothic Goths Hau Kiou Choaan History of China Ibid idea imagination invention island Jesuit John kind landscape language Literary History London Modern Learning narrative nature Nerchinsk Treaty newspaper notes novel novelty Oliver Goldsmith oral original Oxford Percy's pleasure poems poetic Poetry political porcelain Public Ledger published quarrel reader references Reliques Robinson Crusoe romance satire sense serial seventeenth songs Spectator Swift Tartars taste Temple's theory Thomas Percy tion trade tradition translation Travels Trevor Ross University Press Wall Wall of China William Shenstone William Wotton Wotton writes