On the Horizon of World Literature : Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China /

"On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by "world literature" as a discursive framework of classifica...

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Autor Principal: Sun, Emily
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press 2021.
Series:Lit z.
Acceso en liña:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature
  • 1. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice: Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun
  • 2. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader: Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu's Yinbian Yanyu
  • 3. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay: Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren's Approaches to the Ordinary
  • 4. Between the Theater and the Novel: Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North
  • Coda.