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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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