Eugenia Zuroski

A Taste for China

English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste for China argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9780190887438
• ISBN-10: 0190887435
• Artikelnr.: 50991870

Autorenporträt

Eugenia Zuroski is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: "China" and The Prehistory of Orientalism
Chapter 1: The Cosmopolitan Nation, "Where Order in Variety We See"
Chapter 2: The Chinese Touchstone of the Tasteful Imagination
Chapter 3: Defoe's Trinkets: Fiction's Spectral Traffic
Chapter 4: "Nature to Advantage Drest": The Poetry of Subjectivity
Chapter 5: How Chinese Things Became Oriental
Chapter 6: Disenchanting China: Orientalism and the English Novel
Afterword: Rethinking Modern Taste