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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

Yin Yuan

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Description:What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, the book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850). To get started finding Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, the book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850). To get started finding Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

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