Mengmeng Yan

Foreignness and Selfhood

Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781032248035
• ISBN-10: 1032248033
• Artikelnr.: 70350984

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Food and the Nation: Britain's Chinese Tea 2: 'This zeal / so fervid in
a stranger's cause': Self and Other in Arthur Murphy's The Orphan of China
3: 'The Chinese and we are pretty much alike': Oliver Goldsmith's The
Citizen of the World and Chinese Visitors in Britain 4: 'There is no better
means of instruction on China than letting China speak for herself': Thomas
Percy and Hau Kiou Choaan

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1: Food and the Nation: Britain's Chinese Tea 2: 'This zeal / so fervid in a stranger's cause': Self and Other in Arthur Murphy's The Orphan of China 3: 'The Chinese and we are pretty much alike': Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World and Chinese Visitors in Britain 4: 'There is no better means of instruction on China than letting China speak for herself': Thomas Percy and Hau Kiou Choaan