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On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (Lit Z),Used
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On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by world literature as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and reorganized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus providedand continues to providea condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization.The book offers readings of a selection of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new sociopolitical forms of life. The literary manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the domestic novel function as testing grounds for questions of both literaryaesthetic and sociopolitical importance: What does it mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages and activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions, works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lu Xun, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, Zhou Zuoren, Jane Austen, and Eileen Chang explore the farfromsettled problem of what it means to be modern in different lifeworlds.Suns book brings to light the disciplinaryhistorical impact world literature has had in shaping literary traditions and practices around the world. The book renews the practice of close reading by offering the model of a deprovincialized close reading loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneutic circles. By means of its own focus on England and China, the book provides methods useful for comparatists working between other Western and nonWestern languages. It establishes the critical significance of Romanticism for the discipline of literary studies and opens up new paths of research in global Romanticism and global nineteenthcentury studies. And it offers a new approach to analyzing the cosmopolitan character of the literary and cultural transformations of early twentiethcentury China.
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