A Taste for China
Download or Read eBook A Taste for China PDF written by Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199950980 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199950989 |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A Taste for China by : Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins
Book excerpt: 'A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It shows how various genres of writing in this period call upon 'things Chinese' to define the tasteful English subject of modernity. Chinoiserie is no mere exotic curiosity in this culture, but a potent, multivalent sign of England's participation in a cosmopolitan world order.