Forging romantic China : Sino-British cultural exchange, 1760-1840
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Forging romantic China : Sino-British cultural exchange, 1760-1840
AUTHOR:
Kitson, Peter J.
ISBN:
9781107045613
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
PHYSICAL_DESC:
vii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
SERIES:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 105
SERIES_TITLE:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-299) and index.
ABSTRACT:
"The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839-42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
SUBJECT_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism |
| English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
| Romanticism -- Great Britain |
| China -- In literature |
| China -- Civilization |
| Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences |
| Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century |
| Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century |
BIBSUMMARY:
"The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839-42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.