- Additional Authors
- EBSCOhost.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Summary
- "In this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy. Liu's innovative intellectual history traces the organic westward movement of the Chinese concept of tianren heyi, or humanity's unity with heaven. This monistic idea enters the European imaginary through Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci's understanding of Chinese culture, travels through Spinoza's identification of God with nature, becomes ingrained in eighteenth-century English thought via the langscaping theory and practice of William Kent and Horace Walpole, and emerges in the poetry and thought of Coleridge and Wordsworth. In addition to presenting a significantly different reading of the two English poets, Liu contributes to scholarship about English literary history, history of European philosophy and religion, English garden history, and cross-cultural interactions between China and Europe in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries"--
- Series Statement
- East-west encounters in literature and cultural studies
- Uniform Title
- East-West cultural encounters in literature & cultural studies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : a distinct type of cross-cultural interaction and influence -- Behind the book cover : the real fight and legacy of the Chinese rites controversy -- The uncanny resemblance : a telltale clue to the unusual cosmology of Spinoza -- From regularity to irregularity : the landscaping innovation of William Kent -- Changing what is foreign into what is native : the horticultural nationalism of Horace Walpole -- The intrigue of both attraction and repulsion : Coleridge, Spinoza, and China -- The inspiration of an originally Chinese idea : the conceptual innovation of Wordsworth in The ruined cottage.
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2022054811
- OCLC
- 1350797671
- Author
Liu, Yu, 1955- author.
- Title
From Chinese cosmology to English romanticism : the intricate journey of a monistic idea / Yu Liu.
- Publisher
Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press ; Taipei City, Taiwan : National Taiwan University Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
East-west encounters in literature and cultural studies
East-West cultural encounters in literature & cultural studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2023).
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1700-1799
- Added Author
EBSCOhost.
- Other Form:
Print version: Liu, Yu, 1955- From Chinese cosmology to English romanticism. Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press ; Taipei City, Taiwan : National Taiwan University Press, [2023] 9781643363806 (DLC) 2022054810 (OCoLC)1350645216