{"product_id":"age-of-silver-the-rise-of-the-novel-east-and-west-9780190606565","title":"Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and West","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ning Ma\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Age of Silver\u003c\/em\u003e advances a \"horizontal\" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include \u003cem\u003eThe Plum in the Golden Vase\u003c\/em\u003e (China), \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e (Spain), \u003cem\u003eThe Life of an Amorous Man\u003c\/em\u003e (Japan), and \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote \"heteroglossic\" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Silver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003echallenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of world literature and historical transcultural relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46493135077527,"sku":"9780190606565","price":10310.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190606565.jpg?v=1766355517","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/age-of-silver-the-rise-of-the-novel-east-and-west-9780190606565","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}