Britain's Chinese eye : literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain /
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2010.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-227) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780804775878 0804775877 0804759456 9780804759458 |