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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| Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (283 p.) :; 2 bw, 1 color |
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Table of Contents:
- 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