A taste for China : English subjectivity and the prehistory of Orientalism
Zuroski Jenkins, EugeniaAuthor
New York : Oxford University Press,
c2013.
'A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It shows how various genres of writing in this period call upon 'things Chinese' to define the tasteful English subject of modernity. Chinoiserie is no mere exotic curiosity in this culture, but a potent, multivalent sign of England's participation in a cosmopolitan world order.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It shows how various genres of writing in this period call upon 'things Chinese' to define the tasteful English subject of modernity. Chinoiserie is no mere exotic curiosity in this culture, but a potent, multivalent sign of England's participation in a cosmopolitan world order.
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English literature
Orientalism in literature
Chinese diaspora in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature