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Foreignness and Selfhood Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century
By Mengmeng Yan
Copyright 2022
154 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. The author provides a synthesis of approaches to China in eighteenth-century English literature, involving fictional writing related... Read more
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
Biography
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).
