Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period /
The concept of resonance collapses the binary between subject and object, perceiver and perceived, evoking a sound or image that is prolonged and augmented by making contact with another surface. This collection uses resonance as an innovative framework for understanding the circulation of people an...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800
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Table of 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).
