Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / / Daniel Leonhard Purdy.
"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era mi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca [New York] : : Cornell University Press,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
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| Summary: | "Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy."-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1501759736 1501759760 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Daniel Leonhard Purdy. |