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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154724703321

Autore

Ma Ning <1978->

Titolo

The age of silver : the rise of the novel East and West / / Ning Ma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-064941-0

0-19-060658-4

0-19-060657-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Global Asias

Disciplina

809.3032

Soggetti

Realism in literature

Fiction - History and criticism

Silver in literature

Literature and globalization

Modernism (Literature) - History

Comparative literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. toward horizontal comparisons -- Global silver, local novels -- Along the grand canal: the lord of silver in The plum in the golden vase -- La Mancha to the Indies: romance and materiality of the empire in Don Quixote -- Out of Nagasaki: to the end of the floating world -- Caribbean to China: Crusoe's two adventures -- Epilogue: the transcivilizational feminine and world literature.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.