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Quaint, Exquisite : Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan /

From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encounter, showing how the rise of Japa...

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Autor principal: Lavery, Grace E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: Another Empire: Victorian Japan; Introduction: Analytic of the Exquisite; 1 Not About Japan; 2 All Margin; 3 The Pre- Raphaelite Haiku; 4 Loving John Ruskin; 5 The Sword and the Chrysanthemum; Notes; Index; Illustration credits