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Introduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature | 1
1. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice:
Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun | 23
2. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader:
Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu’s Yinbian Yanyu | 50
3. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay:
Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren’s Approaches to the Ordinary | 73
4. Between the Theater and the Novel:
Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North | 92
Coda | 137
Acknowledgments | 141
Notes | 145
Index | 161

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 6 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823294787
      978-0823294787
      ISBN-10 0823294781
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature | 1
      1. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice:
      Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun | 23
      2. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader:
      Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu’s Yinbian Yanyu | 50
      3. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay:
      Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren’s Approaches to the Ordinary | 73
      4. Between the Theater and the Novel:
      Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North | 92
      Coda | 137
      Acknowledgments | 141
      Notes | 145
      Index | 161

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