The Chinese Impact Upon English Renaissance Literature: A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton

ISBN-13: 9780367881085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Mingjun Lu

Opis

Drawing on globalization theory and the representations of China in English Renaissance literature, author Mingjun Lu proposes a liberal cosmopolitanism model to study the early modern interactions with the 'other'. Challenging the conventional colonial/postcolonial, nationalist, and Orientalist frameworks, the liberal cosmopolitanism model not onl

Spis treści

China in early modern globalization: a liberal cosmopolitan model. Global silver-gold flows: the Chinese resonance of Donne's 'unfil'd pistolets'.  The Anyan Strait: Donne's global vision and theological cosmopolitanism.  Chinese chronology and Donne's apologetic exegesis in Essayes in Divnity.  The resonance of Chinese antiquity in Milton's Paradise Lost.  Webb's Chinese linguistic model and the primitive language in Milton's Paradise Lost.  The Mongol Tartars' world imperialism and Milton's vision of global governance.

O autorze

Mingjun Lu is an independent scholar.