Title China from the ruins of Athens and Rome : classics, sinology, and romanticism, 1793-1938 / Chris Murray

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : color illustrations Series Classical presences Classical presences. Contents Cover -- Series page -- China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: A Classical Cathay and a Real China -- Knowing China in English -- Theorizing a Classicized China (or Not) -- Chapter 2: 'Ancestral Voices Prophesying War': Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Gibbon, and the Warnings of History -- Coleridge, Gibbon, and Asia -- The Vision in a Dream, the Plenipotentiary, and the Sober Historian -- Chapter 3: The White Snake, Apollonius of Tyana, and John Keats's Lamia -- Orientalist Keats: Visions of Asia in Lamia -- Apollonius' Lamia Tale as Folklore and Myth -- Transmissions of Apollonius -- Chapter 4: Charles Lamb, Roast Pork, and Willow Crockery -- The Deputy Grecian at East India House -- 'Roast Pig' Recipes from Greece to China -- Elia's Tea Set and Keats's Urn -- 'Talked of in China': Willow Narratives and Later Servings of Lamb -- Chapter 5: 'Better Fifty Years of Europe than a Cycle of Cathay': British Progress, the Opium Trade, and Tennyson's Retrospection -- Classics and Tennyson's Politics -- Time Stands Still: Asian Stagnation in a Classical Universe -- Tennyson and Coleridgean Visions of China -- Chinese Lessons for Britain in 'Locksley Hall', 'Sixty Years After', and 'The Ancient Sage' -- Chapter 6: A Greek Tragedy in China: Thomas de Quincey's Opium Wars Journalism -- Classics, Confessions, and de Quincey's Orient -- The Opium Wars and de Quincey's 'Theory of Greek Tragedy' -- De Quincey's Daimon Amok in China -- Chapter 7: 'From Those Flames No Light': The Summer Palace in 1860 and Beyond -- 'You're Getting Sacked in the Morning': Trojan Victory and Virgilian Melancholy in China -- Elgin & Son: the Parthenon Sculptures, the Summer Palace Treasures, and Repatriation Debates -- Chapter 8: Coda: 'All Things Fall and Are Built Again': Yeats's Daoist Optimism and the Fall of the Qing Dynasty -- Sages on Mountains -- Appendix: Sara Coleridge, 'Tennyson's "Lotos-Eaters" With a New Conclusion' (1842/43) -- References -- Index Summary Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers have turned to classics to provide interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to inform their understanding. This volume reveals key insights into British cosmopolitanism, which sought its bearings in the ancient past in encounters with Qing Dynasty China Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed October 20, 2020) Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Orientalism in literature. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism English literature Literature Orientalism in literature SUBJECT Orient -- In literature Subject Asia -- Orient Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191079740 019107974X 9780191821240 0191821241

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