The Chinese Impact Upon English Renaissance Literature: A Globalization And Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach To Donne And Milton (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)

Drawing on globalization theory and the representations of China in English Renaissance literature, author Mingjun Lu proposes a liberal cosmopolitanism model to study the early modern interactions with the 'other'. Challenging the conventional colonial/postcolonial, nationalist, and Orientalist frameworks, the liberal cosmopolitanism model not only opens Renaissance literary texts to globalization theory but also initiates a new approach to the early modern conception of cultural pluralism. By pushing East-West contact back to the period in 1570s-1670s, Lu's work uncovers some hitherto unrecognized Chinese elements in Western culture and their shaping influence upon English literary imagination.

• • Author: Professor Mingjun Lu
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Sep 11, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 248 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472461258
• • ISBN-13: 9781472461254