China and the writing of English literary modernity, 1690-1770 / by Min, Eun Kyung, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: China in English Literary Modernity; Chapter 1 China between the Ancients and the Moderns; The Ancients of the Ancients; Tracing Chinese Footsteps; The Fall of Parnassus; China and the Plurality of Worlds; Chapter 2 Robinson Crusoe and the Great Wall of China; A "Poetics of Fortification"; "This Mighty Nothing Call'd a Wall"; "This Back-Door Trade to China"; Mapping China in the Early English Novel.…”
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China and the writing of English literary modernity, 1690-1770 / by Min, Eun Kyung, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…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.…”