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A taste for China : English subjectivity and the prehistory of Orientalism / Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins.
LIBRA PR448.O75 J46 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zuroski Jenkins, Eugenia.
- Series:
- Global Asias
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Chinese diaspora in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1 The Cosmopolitan Nation, "Where Order in Variety We See" 16
- 2 The Chinese Touchstone of the Imagination 66
- 3 Defoe's Trinkets: Fiction's Spectral Traffic 105
- 4 "Nature to Advantage Drest": The Poetry of Subjectivity 122
- 5 How Chinese Things Became Oriental 147
- 6 Disenchanting China: Orientalism and the English Novel 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199950980
- 0199950989
- 9780199950997
- 0199950997
- OCLC:
- 810329311
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