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On the Horizon of World Literature - Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (Hardcover)
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On the Horizon of World Literature - Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (Hardcover)
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On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from
asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different
parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These
moments were oriented alike by "world literature" as a discursive
framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local
articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World
literature thus provided-and continues to provide-a condition of
possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their
mutual provincialization. The book offers readings of a selection
of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the
enactment of new socio-political forms of life. The literary
manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the
domestic novel function as testing grounds for questions of both
literary-aesthetic and socio-political importance: What does it
mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell
in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages and
activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions,
works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lu Xun, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin
Shu, Zhou Zuoren, Jane Austen, and Eileen Chang explore the
far-from-settled problem of what it means to be modern in different
lifeworlds. Sun's book brings to light the disciplinary-historical
impact world literature has had in shaping literary traditions and
practices around the world. The book renews the practice of close
reading by offering the model of a deprovincialized close reading
loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneutic circles.
By means of its own focus on England and China, the book provides
methods useful for comparatists working between other Western and
non-Western languages. It establishes the critical significance of
Romanticism for the discipline of literary studies and opens up new
paths of research in global Romanticism and global
nineteenth-century studies. And it offers a new approach to
analyzing the cosmopolitan character of the literary and cultural
transformations of early twentieth-century China.
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