Britain's Chinese eye : literature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain / Elizabeth Hope Chang.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chang, Elizabeth Hope
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics, British > 19th century.
Great Britain > Civilization > Chinese influences.
Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century.
China > In literature.
China > In art.
works of art.
Art.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Garden
  • Plate
  • Display case and den
  • Photograph.

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