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The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature - A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton (Hardcover, Revised Ed.)
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The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature - A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton (Hardcover, Revised Ed.)
Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
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The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how
English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first
substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author
Mingjun Lu explores how Donne and Milton came to be aware of
England's participation in 'the race for the Far East' launched by
Spain and Portugal, and how this new global awareness shaped their
conceptions of cultural pluralism. Drawing on globalization theory,
a framework that proves useful to help us rethink the literary
world of Renaissance England in terms of global maritime networks,
Lu proposes the concept of 'liberal cosmopolitanism' to study early
modern English engagement with the other. The advanced culture of
the Chinese, Lu argues, inculcated in Donne and Milton a respect
for difference and a cosmopolitan curiosity that ultimately led
both authors to reflect in profound and previously unexamined ways
upon their Eurocentric and monotheistic assumptions. The liberal
cosmopolitan model not only opens Renaissance literary texts to
globalization theory but also initiates a new way of thinking about
the early modern encounter with the other beyond the conventional
colonial/postcolonial, nationalist, and Orientalist frameworks. By
pushing East-West contact back to the period in 1570s-1670s, Lu's
work uncovers some hitherto unrecognized Chinese elements in
Western culture and their shaping influence upon English literary
imagination.
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