Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Exotic Ingestion and Self-Reflexive Orientalism in Long-Eighteenth- Century Britain 1
4. 1 Virtuous Leaf, “Intoxicating Liquor”: Britain’s Tea Talk (A Prelude on Tea) 25
5. 2 “Eating Only What I Knew”: Exotic Consumerism and the Boundaries of Selfhood in The Citizen of the World and Vathek 36
6. 3 Cups, Cures, and Curses: The Elusiveness of Cultural Identity in Lalla Rookh and The Talisman 59
7. 4 The Exotic Self: De Quincey’s Opium Texts and Lamb’s Chinese Essays 98
8. 5 “Barbarian Eye”: The Opium Wars as a Visual Project (An Interlude on Opium) 133
9. 6 “Not the Track of the Time”: Antiquated Orientalism in Villette and Little Dorrit 146
10. Afterword: The Inadequate Language of Contagion 186
11. Acknowledgments 195
12. Notes 197
13. Bibliography 239
14. Index 261
15. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 271