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Foreignness and selfhood : Sino-British encounters in English literature of the eighteenth century
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Foreignness and selfhood : Sino-British encounters in English literature of the eighteenth century / Mengmeng Yan.
ISBN
1000572803
9781000572803
9781032248028
9781032248035
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2022].
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
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Biographical / Historical Note
Mengmeng Yan is an assistant professor of English Literature at Peking University. She received her undergraduate honours degree in English from the University of St Andrews (2012), and was awarded her MA and PhD in English by Durham University (2013, 2018).
Summary
"In inviting a rethinking of ideas of foreignness and selfhood, this book explores Sino-British encounters in eighteenth-century English literature, providing detailed critical and literary analysis of individual texts pertaining to China from this period. The author provides an overview of approaches to China in eighteenth-century English literature, involving fictional writing related to China, adaptations of Chinese source texts, and translations of Chinese literary works. By discussing various writings about tea and tea-drinking, Arthur Murphy's The Orphan of China (1759), Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World (1760-62), and Thomas Percy's Hau Kiou Choaan (1761), she highlights the significance of reading these texts not simply as documents of a historical kind, but as texts that are worthy of literary and artistic attention on the basis of their rich variety in genre, style, and themes. The author proposes that Chinese and British cultures are not antithetical entities: they exist in relation to one another and create possibilities in the continuing appreciation of diversity amidst a drive to universality. This study will be primarily helpful to university students and professors of English literature, comparative literature, and history worldwide"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Yan, Mengmeng, 1989- Foreignness and selfhood Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in Chinese comparative literature and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Food and the nation: Britain's Chinese tea
'This zeal / so fervid in a stranger's cause': self and other in Author Murphy's The orphan and China
'The Chinese and we are pretty much alike': Oliver Goldsmith's The citizen of the world and Chinese visitors in Britain
'There is no better means of instruction on China than letting China speak for herself' Thomas Percy and Hau Kiou Choaan
Conclusion.
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