The Far East and the English imagination, 1600-1730
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK |
Publication Dates: | 2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 316 p.: ill., map ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780521819442 052181944X |
Index Number: | I561 |
CLC: | I561.064 |
Call Number: | I561.064/M346 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-302) and index. Introduction : British literature of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties -- The Far East, the East India Company, and the English imagination -- China and the limits of Eurocentric history : Milton, the Jesuits and the Jews of Kaifeng -- "Prudently present your regular tribute" : civility, ceremony, and European rivalry in Qing China -- Heroic merchants : trade, nationalism, and abjection in Dryden's Amboyna -- "I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it" : Crusoe's Farther adventures in the Far East -- "So inexhaustible a treasure of gold" : Defoe, credit, and the romance of the South seas -- Gulliver, the Japanese, and the fantasy of European abjection -- Epilogue : the ideology of trade. |