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By Ning Ma

The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" approach to comparative literature and applies this method of learn the a number of emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in japanese and Western cultural spheres from the 16th throughout the eighteenth centuries. Naming this period of monetary globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion circulate from South the USA and Japan to China via overseas trade, and argues that the consequent transcontinental financial and advertisement co-evolutions influenced analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. the most texts addressed inside of contain The Plum within the Golden Vase (China), Don Quixote (Spain), The lifetime of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). those jap and Western narratives point out from their very own geographical vantage issues advertisement expansions' stimulation of social mobility and bigger approaches of cultural destabilization. Their realist developments are underlain with politically severe features and connote "heteroglossic" nationwide imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar international context and reestablishes commensurabilities among japanese and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation among globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of world early modernity for pluralizing the family tree of global literature and historic transcultural relations.

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