Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England. Introduction
Résumé
Although the contributions in this volume all address interactions involving early modern England and different parts of Asia, we have chosen to primarily entitle our project “Eastern” rather than “Asian” resonances. Our “East” is neither an Orientalist, essentialist fiction, nor a single, geographically bounded entity, but primarily a matter of practised spaces and connected milieus. Following the current “global turn” in research across disciplines, our interest is in the accumulation of meanings that people, objects and cultural phenomena acquire in their journeys across seas and lands. What is of interest to us is to investigate how the narratives of people, objects and cultural phenomena acquire and shift their meanings through circulations and interconnections. In this endeavour, resonance becomes for us not just an underlying metaphor but a method of investigation.
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