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The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 (Hardcover)
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The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 (Hardcover)
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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 by
canonical English authors, this study examines the writings of
Jesuit missionaries, Dutch merchants, and English and continental
geographers, who directly contended with the challenges that China
and Japan posed to visions of western cultural and technological
superiority. Questioning conventional Eurocentric histories, in
this 2006 book Markley examines the ways in which the writings of
Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift deal with the complexities of a
world in which England was marginalised and which, until 1800, was
dominated - economically at least - by the empires of the Far East.
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