TY  - BOOK
AU  - Min,Eun Kyung
TI  - China and the writing of English literary modernity, 1690-1770
SN  - 9781108379793 (ebook)
AV  - PR448.C48 M56 2018
U1  - 820.9005 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - England
KW  - China
KW  - In literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018); Introduction: China and the modern: redefining English literary modernity -- China between the ancients and the moderns -- Robinson Crusoe and the Great Wall of China -- The new, uncommon, or strange: China in the spectator -- Oliver Goldsmith's serial Chinaman -- Thomas Percy's Chinese miscellanies and the reliques of ancient English poetry
N2  - This book explores how a modern English literary identity was forged by its notions of other traditions and histories, in particular those of China. The theorizing and writing of English literary modernity took place in the midst of the famous quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns. Eun Kyung Min argues that this quarrel was in part a debate about the value of Chinese culture and that a complex cultural awareness of China shaped the development of a 'national' literature in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England by pushing to new limits questions of comparative cultural value and identity. Writers including Defoe, Addison, Goldsmith, and Percy wrote China into genres such as the novel, the periodical paper, the pseudo-letter in the newspaper, and anthologized collections of 'antique' English poetry, inventing new formal strategies to engage in this wide-ranging debate about what defined modern English identity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379793
ER  -