Chinese sympathies : media, missionaries, and world literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / Daniel Leonhard Purdy.
"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era mi...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 405 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1501759760 9781501759765 1501759752 9781501759758 1501759736 9781501759734 1501759744 9781501759741 |