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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lavery, Grace E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:Princeton scholarship online.
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Online Access:Texto completo