This book explores how a modern English literary identity was forged by its notions of other traditions and histories, in particular those of China. The theoriz

Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as 'English' and 'modern' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.

New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focusing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and

In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as