The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature a Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton |
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| Author:
| Lu, Mingjun |
| Series title: | Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4724-6127-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Digital |
| List Price: | USD $109.95 |
Book Description:
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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 only opens Renaissance literary texts to globalization theory but also initiates a new approach to the early modern conception of cultural...
More DescriptionDrawing 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 only opens Renaissance literary texts to globalization theory but also initiates a new approach to the early modern conception of cultural pluralism. By pushing East-West contact back to the period in 1570s-1670s, Lu's work uncovers some hitherto unrecognized Chinese elements in Western culture and their shaping influence upon English literary imagination.