Alimentary Orientalism Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East |
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| Author:
| Yuan, Yin |
| Series title: | Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-68448-466-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2023 |
| Publisher: | Bucknell University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $59.40 |
Book Description:
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What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism examines the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses that these commodities sparked transformed the period's literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness.
What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism examines the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses that these commodities sparked transformed the period's literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness.