TheFarEastandtheEnglishImagination,1600-1730
- 作者
- 出版社 CambridgeUniversityPress
- 出版时间 2009年12月
- ISBN 9780521126953
- 定价 520.10
内容简介
IntheseventeenthandeighteenthcenturiesChina,JapanandtheSpiceIslandsdazzledtheEnglishimaginationasinsatiablemarketsforEuropeangoods,andasvast,inexhaustiblestorehousesofspicesandluxurywares.RobertMarkleyexploresthesignificanceofattitudestothewealthandpowerofEastAsiainrethinkingconceptionsofnationalandpersonalidentityinseventeenth-andearlyeighteenth-centuryEnglishliterature.AlongsideworksbycanonicalEnglishauthors,thisstudyexaminesthewritingsofJesuitmissionaries,Dutchmerchants,andEnglishandcontinentalgeographers,whodirectlycontendedwiththechallengesthatChinaandJapanposedtovisionsofwesternculturalandtechnologicalsuperiority.QuestioningconventionalEurocentrichistories,inthis2006bookMarkleyexaminesthewaysinwhichthewritingsofMilton,Dryden,DefoeandSwiftdealwiththecomplexitiesofaworldinwhichEnglandwasmarginalisedandwhich,until1800,wasdominated-economicallyatleast-bytheempiresoftheFarEast.
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