
China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome
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- 1: A Classical Cathay and a Real China
- 2: 'Ancestral Voices Prophesying War': Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Gibbon, and the Warnings of History
- 3: The White Snake, Apollonius of Tyana, and John Keats's Lamia
- 4: Charles Lamb, Roast Pork, and Willow Crockery
- 5: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay': British Progress, the Opium Trade, and Tennyson's Retrospection
- 6: A Greek Tragedy in China: Thomas de Quincey's Opium Wars Journalism
- 7: 'From those flames no light': The Summer Palace in 1860 and Beyond
- 8: Coda: 'All things fall and are built again': Yeats's Daoist Optimism and the Fall of the Qing Empire
- Appendix: Sara Coleridge, 'Tennyson's "Lotos-Eaters" with a New Conclusion'
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