Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East by Yuan, Yin

Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East

What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the...
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Author: Yin Yuan
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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East by Yuan, Yin

Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East

$118.73

Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East

$118.73
Author: Yin Yuan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Yin Yuan
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 06/16/2023
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.06w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781684484669

About the Author
Yin Yuan is an assistant professor of English at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga. Her research interests include British Orientalism, Anglophone literature, and East Asian popular culture and her work has been published in Studies in Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Journal, and SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.


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