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oapen-20.500.12657-892252024-04-03T02:24:56Z Chapter Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century Jin, Wen England China Eighteenth Century Fiction thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in England. 2024-04-02T15:50:09Z 2024-04-02T15:50:09Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502428_194 2975-0261 9791221502428 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89225 eng Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History application/pdf n/a 9791221502428_06.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0242-8_6 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.06 10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.06 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221502428 2 10 Florence open access
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This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in England.
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