[PDF.18kb] Pagodas in Play: China on the Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera Stage (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture)

Pagodas in Play examines the representation of China in nine Italian operas of the eighteenth century. It focuses specifically on libretti, analyzing them as texts produced in a variety of interpenetrating cultural contexts: the general European fascination with the Middle Kingdom; developments in Italian literary, theatrical, and operatic realms; Enlightenment ideologies; and the heterogeneity of the Italian stat...

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