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Britain's Chinese Eye - Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Britain's Chinese Eye - Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China
throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central
impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an
unusual group of primary sources to investigate how
nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese
people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic,
geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British
writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences.
For many Britons, China was much more than a geographical location;
it was also a way of seeing and being seen that could be either
embraced as creative inspiration or rejected as contagious
influence. In both cases, the idea of China's visual difference
stood in negative contrast to Britain's evolving sense of the
visual and literary real. To better grasp what Romantic and
Victorian writers, artists, and architects were doing at home, we
must also understand the foreign "objects" found in their midst and
what they were looking at abroad.
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