Description
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
About the Author
BAERBEL CZENNIA has served as associate professor of English at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and as tenured senior lecturer of English literature at Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen, Germany, for more than 25 years. She is the author or editor of many essays and two books, including Celebrities: The Idiom of a Modern Era.
GREG CLINGHAM is emeritus professor of English at Bucknell University, a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and the author or editor of ten books, including Johnson, Writing, and Memory. From 1996 to 2018, he was director of the Bucknell University Press.
Reviews
"The topic is clearly timely, as questions surrounding globalization and networks continue to be some of the most pressing of the twenty-first century. Such questions thus continue to demand historical investigation that is both substantial in its scholarship and innovative in its approach - a dual hurdle that Oriental Networks clears with ease, even panache. The editors are to be commended on their choice of contributions, which impressively encompass canonical and non-canonical writers, and contain an embarrassment of archival riches. The fact that the collection is lavishly, intelligently illustrated is a real bonus, too!" -- Evan Gottlieb * author of Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830 *
"Oriental Networks provides ample evidence that the networked worlds of the twenty-first century descend, in crucial ways, from eighteenth-century European experiments in global interconnection, both material and conceptual, with a particular focus on the East. The ambivalence of eighteenth-century orientalisms lends itself to the complex and sometimes unpredictable dynamics of transculturation and exchange within emergent paradigms of empire. These case studies invite response from non-Eurocentric sites of knowledge and thus initiate an important conversation." -- Eugenia Zuroski * author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism *
Book Information
ISBN 9781684482719
Author Barbel Czennia
Format Paperback
Page Count 340
Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Publisher Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 4g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 23mm