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ISBN10: 0190606568, ISBN13: 9780190606565, [publisher: Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford] Hardcover text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have light wear. edges of pages have very light wear. dust jacket has very light wear. [Eugene, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
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Hardback. New. The Age of Silver considers how commerce fueled the emergence of the novel around the globe, examining the evolution of epochal works of national literature from Don Quixote in 1605 to Robinson Crusoe in 1719. ISBN 0190606568 9780190606565 [GB]
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ISBN10: 0190606568, ISBN13: 9780190606565, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that theresultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include The Plum in the Golden Vase(China), Don Quixote (Spain), The Life of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernitywith a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with wester ...
ISBN10: 0190606568, ISBN13: 9780190606565, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
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