Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “Not Fit for Any Other Pursuit”: Shifting Places, Shifting Identities in Ludovico de Varthema’s Itinerario

Chapter 3 “A Pattern to All Princes”: Locating the Queen of Sheba

Chapter 4 “Endued with a Natural Disposition to Resonance and Sympathy”: “Harmonious” Jones’s Intimate Reading and Cultural Translation of India

Chapter 5 Ancient Persia, Early Modern England, and the Labours of “Reception”

Chapter 6 “Enthusiastick” Uses of an Oriental Tale: The English Translations of Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 7 The Manchu Invasion of Britain: Nomadic Resonances in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Chinoiserie Aesthetics, and Material Culture

Chapter 8 From Jehol to Stowe: Ornamental Orientalism and the Aesthetics of the Anglo-Chinese Garden

Chapter 10 Collecting Statues in India and Transferring Them to Britain, or the Intertwined Lives of Indian Objects and Colonial Administrators (Late Eighteenth Century to Early Nineteenth Century)