Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period

215 Pages·2019·3.33 MB·English

by  Claire Gallien, Ladan Niayesh

NEW TRANSCULTURALISMS, 1400–1800
Eastern Resonances in
Early Modern England
Receptions and Transformations
from the Renaissance
to the Romantic Period
Edited by
claire gallien
ladan niayesh
New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
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Claire Gallien · Ladan Niayesh
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Eastern Resonances
in Early Modern
England
Receptions and Transformations
from the Renaissance
to the Romantic Period
Editors
Claire Gallien Ladan Niayesh
Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III Université Paris Diderot
Montpellier, France Paris, France
New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
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cknowledgements
As with any long-term project, this volume resonates with multiple pres-
ences, by all the colleagues, friends, and institutions giving us the start or
helping us along the way. Our chief thanks go to two wonderfully sup-
portive research centers, IRCL (UMR 5186, University of Montpellier
3) and LARCA (UMR 8225, University of Paris Diderot), which gener-
ously helped us organize the “Eastern Resonances” series of conferences
in which this book project first originated. LARCA further financed the
reproduction of several images used in this volume.
As we moved from the conference frame towards a volume of essays,
some collaborators left and others joined, but their contributions were all
valuable to the final outcome, and we are grateful to all. We particularly
wish to thank Jean-Marie Fournier who was our co-organizer for the
conferences, and remember with deep emotion the late Robert Mankin,
who hosted one of our events at the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe
at the Cité Universitaire in Paris.
Our tutelary angel all along has been Jyotsna Singh, whose tenacity
saw through both the series in its peripeteias and our volume in it. We
extend our thanks to the other series editors and the whole team for
their sterling work throughout the process of reviewing and production.
We are also grateful to the following institutions for the permissions
to reproduce images from their collections: la Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; the British Museum; the Getty Research Centre, Philadelphia; la
Réunion des Musées Nationaux de France.
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The theoretical frame for the introduction much benefited from
exchanges with Maestro Maximianno Cobra, to whom we wish to
express our gratitude. It would be difficult to list all the other vibrant
presences behind this project, but we would like to particularly thank
Nandini Das, Olivera Jokic, Sarga Moussa, and Fabrizio Speziale.
Last but not least, our work is indebted to our loving and ever sup-
portive families, to whom this volume is dedicated.
Claire Gallien
Ladan Niayesh
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1 Introduction 1
Claire Gallien and Ladan Niayesh
Part I Resonant Identities: Models, Circulations,
Correspondences
2 “Not Fit for Any Other Pursuit”: Shifting Places,
Shifting Identities in Ludovico de Varthema’s Itinerario 17
Supriya Chaudhuri
3 “A Pattern to All Princes”: Locating the Queen of Sheba 35
Matthew Dimmock
4 “Endued with a Natural Disposition to Resonance
and Sympathy”: “Harmonious” Jones’s Intimate
Reading and Cultural Translation of India 51
Michael J. Franklin
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Part II Textual Resonances: Receptions, Translations,
Transformations
5 Ancient Persia, Early Modern England,
and the Labours of “Reception” 75
Jane Grogan
6 “Enthusiastick” Uses of an Oriental Tale: The English
Translations of Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan
in the Eighteenth Century 93
Louisiane Ferlier and Claire Gallien
7 The Manchu Invasion of Britain: Nomadic Resonances
in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Chinoiserie Aesthetics,
and Material Culture 115
Laurence Williams
Part III Aesthetic Resonances: Material Culture
and Artistic Sensibilities
8 From Jehol to Stowe: Ornamental Orientalism
and the Aesthetics of the Anglo-Chinese Garden 139
Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding
9 “A Mart for Everything”: Commercial Empire
and India as Bazaar in Long Eighteenth-Century
Literature 163
Diego Saglia
10 Collecting Statues in India and Transferring Them
to Britain, or the Intertwined Lives of Indian Objects
and Colonial Administrators (Late Eighteenth
Century to Early Nineteenth Century) 183
Anne-Julie Etter
Index 201
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Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding is Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century
British Studies and a member of CECILLE research center (EA 4074) at
the University of Lille, France. Her research focuses on eighteenth-cen-
tury British art and cultural history, visual and material culture, and in
particular the fashion for chinoiserie and the representation of the Orient
in British art. She is the author of La Chine dans l’imaginaire anglais des
Lumières (1685–1798) (Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2016) and
edited Rêver la Chine: Chinoiseries et regards croisés entre la Chine et l’Eu-
rope aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Edition Invenit, 2017).
Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita, Department of English, Jadavpur
University, India. Her specializations include European Renaissance lit-
erature, nineteenth and early twentieth-century cultural history, modern-
ism, critical theory, and sport. Among recent publications are the coedited
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World (Routledge, 2018) and
chapter contributions to The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian
Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Renaissance Shakespeare/
Shakespeare Renaissances (Delaware University Press, 2014), Celebrating
Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory (Cambridge University
Press, 2015), A History of the Indian Novel in English (Cambridge
University Press, 2015), A Companion to Virginia Woolf (Blackwell, 2016),
and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (Cambridge University Press,
2018).
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