Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108479141 |
| ISBN10: | 1108479146 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 996 pages |
| Size: | 223x147x57 mm |
| Weight: | 1460 g |
| Language: | English |
| 693 |
Category:
The Citizen of the World
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 7 November 2024
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Short description:
Written during a global war for empire, The Citizen of the World explores cosmopolitan community and its limits.
Long description:
The Citizen of the World is a highly readable yet deceptively sophisticated text, using the popular eighteenth-century device of the imaginary observer. Its main narrator, the Chinese philosopher Lien Chi Altangi, draws on traditional ideas of Confucian wisdom as he tries (and sometimes fails) to come to terms with the commercial modernity and spectacle of imperial London. Goldsmith explores a moment of economic and social transformation in Britain and at the same time engages with the ramifications of a global conflict, the Seven Years' War (1756-63). He also uses his travelling Chinese narrator as a way of indirectly addressing his own predicament as an Irish exile in London. This edition provides a reliable, authoritative text, records the history of its production, and includes an introduction and explanatory notes which situate this enormously rich work within the political debates and cultural conflicts of its time, illuminating its allusiveness and intellectual ambition.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; The Citizen of the World; Textual introduction; Bibliographic descriptions, emendations, and collations; Hyphenated line-endings; Bibliography; Index.
