The Far East and the English imagination, 1600-1730 / Robert Markley.
Markley, Robert, 1952-
2006
PR438.E36 M37 2006 (Mapit)
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Title The Far East and the English imagination, 1600-1730 / Robert Markley.
Author Markley, Robert, 1952-
ISBN 9780521819442
052181944X
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Language English
Description viii, 316 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR438.E36 M37 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9325
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-302) and index.
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Introduction : British literature of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties
The Far East, the East India Company, and the English imagination
China and the limits of Eurocentric history : Milton, the Jesuits and the Jews of Kaifeng
"Prudently present your regular tribute" : civility, ceremony, and European rivalry in Qing China
Heroic merchants : trade, nationalism, and abjection in Dryden's Amboyna
"I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it" : Crusoe's Farther adventures in the Far East
"So inexhaustible a treasure of gold" : Defoe, credit, and the romance of the South seas
Gulliver, the Japanese, and the fantasy of European abjection
Epilogue : the ideology of trade.

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