Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period

In: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800

In: Springer eBooks

In: History

Abstract

1. Introduction -- I. Resonant Identities: Models, Circulations, Correspondences -- 2. "Not fit for any other pursuit": Shifting Places, Shifting Identities in Ludovico di Varthema's Itinerario -- 3. "A Pattern to all Princes": Locating the Queen of Sheba -- 4. "Endued with a natural disposition to resonance and sympathy": "Harmonious" Jones's Intimate Reading and Cultural Translation of India -- II. Textual Resonances: Receptions, Translations, Transformations -- 5. Ancient Persia, Early Modern England, and the Labours of "Reception" -- 6. "Enthusiastick" Uses of an Oriental Tale: The English Translations of Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan in the Eighteenth Century -- 7. The Manchu Invasion of Britain: Nomadic Resonances in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Chinoiserie Aesthetics, and Material Culture -- III. Aesthetic Resonances: Material Culture and Artistic Sensibilities -- 8. From Jehol to Stowe: Ornamental Orientalism and the Aesthetics of the Anglo-Chinese Garden -- 9. "A Mart for Everything": Commercial Empire and India as Bazaar in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 10. Collecting in India and Transferring to Britain, or the Intertwined Lives of Indian Statues and Colonial Administrators (Late Eighteenth Century to Early Nineteenth Century)