East-West Encounters in Literature and Cultural Studies
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East-West Encounters in Literature and Cultural Studies

The Intricate Journey of a Monistic Idea

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East-West Encounters in Literature and Cultural Studies

The Intricate Journey of a Monistic Idea

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A culturally sensitive and rewarding new understanding of the cross-cultural interaction between China and Europe

In this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy. Liu's innovative intellectual history traces the organic westward movement of the Chinese concept of tianren heyi, or humanity's unity with heaven. This monistic idea enters the European imaginary through Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci's understanding of Chinese culture, travels through Spinoza's identification of God with nature, becomes ingrained in eighteenth-century English thought via the landscaping theory and practice of William Kent and Horace Walpole, and emerges in the poetry and thought of Coleridge and Wordsworth. In addition to presenting a significantly different reading of the two English poets, Liu contributes to scholarship about English literary history, history of European philosophy and religion, English garden history, and cross-cultural interactions between China and Europe in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781643363813
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Series Editor’s Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: A Distinct Type of Cross-cultural Interaction and Influence
  10. PART 1. By Chance or Design: The Detectable Route of Philosophical Transmission
  11. PART 2. For Pride or Prejudice: The Hitherto Unrecognized Route of Aesthetic Transmission
  12. PART 3. To Accept or Reject: The History-Making Choices in English Romanticism
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index