The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730

by Robert Markley

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination as insatiable markets for European goods, and as vast, inexhaustible storehouses of spices and luxury wares. Robert Markley explores the significance of attitudes to the wealth and power of East Asia in rethinking conceptions of national and personal identity in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English literature. Alongside works...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521126959

ISBN13:9780521126953

Release Date:December 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Writing Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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