A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism

ISBN-13: 9780190887438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Eugenia Zuroski

Opis

Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, A Taste for China argues that chinoiserie in literature and material culture played a central role in shaping emergent conceptions of taste and subjectivity.

Recenzje

A number of recent books have taken up a related set of questions, but Zuroski Jenkins demonstrates that they have far from exhausted the interest of what she makes clear is an unexpectedly rich and polyvalent set of cultural dynamics. A Taste for China is poised to make a decisive and significant contribution to the field.

O autorze

Eugenia Zuroski is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.