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An English Watchmaker in 18th Century China : Christoph Ransmayr’s Novel “Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit” (Cox, or the Passage of Time)

University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies

The Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr, best known for his Ovid-pastiche "The Last World" (1988), depicts 18th Century China in his latest novel Cox, or the Passage of Time (2016). While the famous English watchmaker James Cox (1723-1800) is in its centre, the book is not a historical novel, rather it is a piece of fanciful fiction, based on facts, about the strategic, political and philosophical significance of time itself.

eng

2020-05-12

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74405

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/