- East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)
- Edited by Rolando Minuti, Giovanni Tarantino
Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century
- Wen Jin
- © 2023 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.06
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.
- Keywords:
- England; China; Eighteenth Century; Fiction,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century
Authors
Wen Jin
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.06
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2023
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Book Title
East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)
Editors
Rolando Minuti, Giovanni Tarantino
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
228
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8
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Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
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2975-0393
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2975-0261