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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East

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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East - Yuan, Yin
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What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism examines the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses that these commodities sparked transformed the period's literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness.

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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East 2023, Bucknell University Press

ISBN-13: 9781684484669

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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East 2023, Bucknell University Press

ISBN-13: 9781684484676

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