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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Main Author: Lavery, Grace E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Oxford Princeton University Press [2019]
In:Year: 2019
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Japan / Aesthetics / Reception / Great Britain
B Japan / Art / Aesthetics / Reception / England / Great Britain
Further subjects:B Aesthetics, Modern 19th century
B Aesthetics, Japanese
B Arts, British Japanese influences
B Arts, British 19th century
B LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
B Art, Japanese 19th century
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