Alimentary Orientalism : : Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East / / Yin Yuan.
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...
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Yuan, Yin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Alimentary Orientalism : Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East / Yin Yuan. Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2023] 2023 1 online resource (283 p.) : 2 bw, 1 color text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth- Century Britain -- 1 Virtuous Leaf, "Intoxicating Liquor": Britain's Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) -- 2 "Eating Only What I Knew": Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek -- 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman -- 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey's Opium Texts and Lamb's Chinese Essays -- 5 "Barbarian Eye": The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) -- 6 "Not the Track of the Time": Antiquated Orientalism in Villette and Little Dorrit -- Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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, this 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023) Consumption (Economics) Social aspects Great Britain History DLC. Luxury goods industry Great Britain History DLC. Orientalism Great Britain History DLC. Other (Philosophy) DLC. (DE-588)4014777-0 (DE-627)106338749 (DE-576)208909400 Englisch gnd (DE-588)4035964-5 (DE-627)106245015 (DE-576)209015608 Literatur gnd (DE-588)4138928-1 (DE-627)105639028 (DE-576)209690135 Der Andere gnd (DE-588)4153341-0 (DE-627)105531642 (DE-576)209802588 Exotik gnd (DE-588)4232369-1 (DE-627)104925477 (DE-576)210363274 Nahrung Motiv gnd (DE-588)4516666-3 (DE-627)249353962 (DE-576)213244209 Genussmittel Motiv gnd LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh The Citizen of the World, Oliver Goldsmith, Vathek, William Beckford, Lalla Rookh, Thomas Moore, The Talisman, Walter Scott, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincy, Charles Lamb, Opium Wars, Villette, Charlotte Brontë, Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, Consumption, Consumerism, Exotic goods, Exotic consumerism, Exotic ingestion, Commodities, Tea discourse, Imperial identity, Cultural identity, Empire, Tea, China, Opium. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684484690 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684484690 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781684484690/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth- Century Britain -- 1 Virtuous Leaf, "Intoxicating Liquor": Britain's Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) -- 2 "Eating Only What I Knew": Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek -- 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman -- 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey's Opium Texts and Lamb's Chinese Essays -- 5 "Barbarian Eye": The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) -- 6 "Not the Track of the Time": Antiquated Orientalism in Villette and Little Dorrit -- Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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