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

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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
Main Author: Lavery, Grace E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rezeption
Ästhetik
Art, Japanese.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Aesthetics, Japanese.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comparative Literature.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Art japonais > 19e siecle.
Esthetique japonaise.
Esthetique > 19e siecle.
Art, Japanese > 19th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century.
Japan
Grossbritannien
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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