Quaint, Exquisite : : Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan / / Grace Lavery.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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