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Article: Through western eyes: young adult literature set in China.(Essay)
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- Fu Jen Studies: literature & linguistics
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Intellectuals during the eighteenth century in Europe, and especially in England, delighted in developing systems for just about anything, a tendency which Jonathan Swift amusingly satirizes in the third book of his Gulliver's Travels (1726), lambasting, among other targets, the famous Academy of Projectors whose earnest investigations consistently lead nowhere. More gently, George Eliot in Middlemarch (1872) deftly takes the would-be cultural historian Casaubon to task for even attempting, let alone failing to complete, his absurdly titled opus, "Key to All Mythologies." But Eliot was a century removed from the eighteenth, and Swift, while respected, was known to be both ...