Abstract
This critical introduction presents “resonance” as a conceptual frame and a method of investigation for mapping multidirectional modes of interaction between Britain and its multiple Asian Easts. Providing the volume with its coherence and terminology, the concept offers a new way of thinking east–west exchanges beyond adversarial binaries, thereby facilitating cross-disciplinary interactions and engagements with recent developments in material and global studies. The introduction further presents the argument of the three sections of the book: resonant identities, textual resonances, and aesthetic resonances.
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Emily Thompson defines the soundscape as “simultaneously a physical environment and a way of perceiving that environment” (Sterne 2012, p. 117).
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See in particular the development in Compendium musicae (1618), in Descartes (1985, pp. 7–14).
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Mais les cordes vibrantes ont encore une autre propriété, c’est d’en faire frémir d’autres et c’est ainsi qu’une première idée en rappelle une seconde, ces deux-là une troisième, toutes les trois une quatrième, et ainsi de suite, sans qu’on puisse fixer la limite des idées réveillées, enchaînées, du philosophe qui médite ou qui s’écoute dans le silence et l’obscurité (Diderot 1951, p. 879; translated in Erlmann 2010, p. 9).
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Gallien, C., Niayesh, L. (2019). Introduction. In: Gallien, C., Niayesh, L. (eds) Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England. New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22925-2_1
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