Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England

1. Introduction.- I. Resonant Identities: Models, Circulations, Correspondences.- 2.&nbsp;“Not fit for any other pursuit”: Shifting Places, Shifting Identities in Ludovico di Varthema’s Itinerario.- 3.&nbsp;“A Pattern to all Princes”: Locating the Queen of Sheba.- 4.&nbsp;“Endued with a natural disposition to resonance and sympathy”: “Harmonious” Jones’s Intimate Reading and Cultural Translation of India.- II.&nbsp;Textual Resonances: Receptions, Translations, Transformations.- 5.&nbsp;Ancient Persia, Early Modern England, and the Labours of “Reception”.- 6.&nbsp;“Enthusiastick” Uses of an Oriental Tale: The English Translations of Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan in the Eighteenth Century.- 7.&nbsp;The Manchu Invasion of Britain: Nomadic Resonances in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Chinoiserie Aesthetics, and Material Culture.- III.&nbsp;Aesthetic Resonances: Material Culture and Artistic Sensibilities.- 8. From Jehol to Stowe: Ornamental Orientalism and the Aestheticsof the Anglo-Chinese Garden.- 9.&nbsp;“A Mart for Everything”: Commercial Empire and India as Bazaar in the Long Eighteenth Century.- 10.&nbsp;Collecting in India and Transferring to Britain, or the Intertwined Lives of Indian Statues and Colonial Administrators (Late Eighteenth Century to Early Nineteenth Century).<p></p>