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Re-orienting the British Enlightenment.

Wo, Ching-ling.

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Re-orienting the British Enlightenment./
Author:	Wo, Ching-ling.
Description:	184 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3376.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3148915
ISBN:	9780496082384

Re-orienting the British Enlightenment.
Wo, Ching-ling.

Re-orienting the British Enlightenment. - 184 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3376.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2004.

"Re-Orienting the British Enlightenment" considers European modernity as a process of transculturation and argues that a condition of cultural dislocation determines the epistemological features of modern science. I develop this argument through an examination of the evolution of the "System" genre and its mutation, the "Oriental Observer" genre, in the context of England's attraction to and repulsion from China over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries.

ISBN: 9780496082384Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Re-orienting the British Enlightenment.
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520 $a The dissertation is divided into two parts. Part One considers the impact on the European cultural landscape of travelers' eyewitness accounts and the dissenting evidence from other parts of the world. Chapter One examines the travel account as a form of knowledge that challenges the God-centered System; the traditional stance of face-to-face wonder at Creation is increasingly displaced by a cartographic vision that registers the world from a satellite view. Through the orbiting moves of discovery and circumnavigation, a new kind of system emerges. Chapter Two further explains the implications of the new system's orbiting feature by reading pictorial representations of the Dutch embassies to China and by analyzing the protocols of scientific demonstration typified by the work of the Royal Society in London.
520 $a Part Two examines various kinds of material manifestations and echoes of China in Britain. Chapter Three focuses on China as a cultural system deployed in readable form by print technology, and on how the contradiction between sacred scripture and known history (of other cultural systems) leads to a systematic contradiction that reorients system around a cartographic globe. Chapter Four situates Eighteenth-century anxiety about taste in the context of the transculturating forces of Chinese artifacts: to defend "natural" English ways from "monstrous" Chinoiseries, the Man of Taste comes as a kind of Newtonian Deity needed for cultural cohesion. Chapter Five concludes by examining what I call the xenophobic cosmopolitanism engendered by the denial of the discursive importance of China to the formation of system. I consider the landscape aesthetics of William Chambers and Horace Walpole together with the crisis in the English countryside to articulate the historical consequence of this epistemological enclosure.
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