The Citizen of the World
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2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47914-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
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The Citizen of the World uses the letters written home by an imaginary Chinese philosopher, Lien Chi Altangi, to provide an estranged perspective – both naïve and critical – on the imperial metropolis and the transformation of British society across the eighteenth century.
The Citizen of the World is a highly readable yet deceptively sophisticated text, using the popular eighteenth-century device of the imaginary observer. Its main narrator, the Chinese philosopher Lien Chi Altangi, draws on traditional ideas of Confucian wisdom as he tries (and sometimes fails) to come to terms with the commercial modernity and spectacle of imperial London. Goldsmith explores a moment of economic and social transformation in Britain and at the same time engages with the ramifications of a global conflict, the Seven Years' War (1756–63). He also uses his travelling Chinese narrator as a way of indirectly addressing his own predicament as an Irish exile in London. This edition provides a reliable, authoritative text, records the history of its production, and includes an introduction and explanatory notes which situate this enormously rich work within the political debates and cultural conflicts of its time, illuminating its allusiveness and intellectual ambition.
The Citizen of the World is a highly readable yet deceptively sophisticated text, using the popular eighteenth-century device of the imaginary observer. Its main narrator, the Chinese philosopher Lien Chi Altangi, draws on traditional ideas of Confucian wisdom as he tries (and sometimes fails) to come to terms with the commercial modernity and spectacle of imperial London. Goldsmith explores a moment of economic and social transformation in Britain and at the same time engages with the ramifications of a global conflict, the Seven Years' War (1756–63). He also uses his travelling Chinese narrator as a way of indirectly addressing his own predicament as an Irish exile in London. This edition provides a reliable, authoritative text, records the history of its production, and includes an introduction and explanatory notes which situate this enormously rich work within the political debates and cultural conflicts of its time, illuminating its allusiveness and intellectual ambition.
James Watt is Director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. He is the author of British Orientalisms, 1759–1835 (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre, and Cultural Conflict, 1764–1832 (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Introduction; The Citizen of the World; Textual introduction; Bibliographic descriptions, emendations, and collations; Hyphenated line-endings; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Cambridge Edition of the Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 223 mm |
| Gewicht | 1460 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-47914-6 / 1108479146 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-47914-1 / 9781108479141 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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