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Tea and the Limits of Orientalism in Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Author(s):
- Eugenia Zuroski (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- British--Social life and customs, Eighteenth century, Orientalism, Romanticism, Great Britain
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- opium, tea, De Quincery, 18th-century British culture, British Romanticism
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/htqh-je39
- Abstract:
- This essay analyzes De Quincey's use of the figure of tea to construct the distinction between England and "the orient." The instability of tea as a figure in early 19th-century British culture yields uncanny effects at the heart of De Quincey's orientalist vision of selfhood.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Boydell and Brewer
- Pub. Date:
- 2016
- Book Title:
- Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
- Author/Editor:
- Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley, eds.
- Page Range:
- 105 - 131
- ISBN:
- 9781843844457
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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Tea and the Limits of Orientalism in Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater