Forging Romantic China

Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840

By:

Peter J. Kitson

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839–42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Author Biography:

Peter J. Kitson is Professor of English at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Romantic Literature, Race and Colonial Encounter (2007).

Release date Australia

November 21st, 2013

Author

Peter J. Kitson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

9 Halftones, black and white

Pages

326

Series

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Dimensions

156x235x22

ISBN-13

9781107045613

Product ID

21452084

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