Chapter Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century
This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred...
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| description | This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in England. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1359682025-07-18T09:46:42Z Chapter Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century Jin, Wen England China Eighteenth Century Fiction thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in England. 2024-04-03T05:44:12Z 2024-04-03T05:44:12Z 2024-04-02T15:50:09Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502428_194 2975-0261 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89225 9791221502428 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/135968 eng Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89225/1/9791221502428_06.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.06 10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.06 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221502428 10 Florence open access |
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