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Chapter Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century

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This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in England.

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Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History

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www.fupress.com/ : Firenze University Press., Florence, 2023

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English

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9791221502428

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computer

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online resource

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England

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Jin, Wen

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/135968

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Suwardi

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10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.06

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