Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England : Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period /: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Claire Gallien, Ladan Niayesh.
• Editors: Gallien, Claire; Niayesh, Ladan
• Contents: 1. Introduction I. Resonant Identities: Models, Circulations, Correspondences 2. 'Not fit for any other pursuit': Shifting Places, Shifting Identities in Ludovico di Varthema's Itinerario 3. 'A Pattern to all Princes': Locating the Queen of Sheba 4. 'Endued with a natural disposition to resonance and sympathy': 'Harmonious' Jones's Intimate Reading and Cultural Translation of India II. Textual Resonances: Receptions, Translations, Transformations 5. Ancient Persia, Early Modern England, and the Labours of 'Reception' 6. 'Enthusiastick' Uses of an Oriental Tale: The English Translations of Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan in the Eighteenth Century 7. The Manchu Invasion of Britain: Nomadic Resonances in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Chinoiserie Aesthetics, and Material Culture III. Aesthetic Resonances: Material Culture and Artistic Sensibilities 8. From Jehol to Stowe: Ornamental Orientalism and the Aesthetics of the Anglo-Chinese Garden 9. 'A Mart for Everything': Commercial Empire and India as Bazaar in the Long Eighteenth Century 10. Collecting in India and Transferring to Britain, or the Intertwined Lives of Indian Statues and Colonial Administrators (Late Eighteenth Century to Early Nineteenth Century).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (207 pages)
• Subjects: History; World history; Literature, Modern; History -- Europe -- General; Literary Criticism -- Books & Reading; European history; Literary studies: general; Literature: history & criticism; History -- World; General & world history; Europe-History-1492-; Books-History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030229252
• Related ISBNs: 9783030229245
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