David Porter

The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

A major study of eighteenth-century cultural history and the history of contact and exchange between China and the West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192996
• ISBN-10: 0521192994
• Artikelnr.: 31194344

Autorenporträt

David Porter is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Monstrous beauty
Part I. China and the Aesthetics of Exoticism: 1. Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste
2. Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese Garden
Part II. What Do Women Want?: 3. Gendered Utopias in transcultural context
4. William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism
Part III. Of Rocks, Gardens, and Goldfish: 5. The socio-aesthetics of the Scholar's Stone
6. Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of Chinoiserie
Part IV. China and the Invention of Englishness: 7. Chinaware and the evolution of a modern domestic ideal
8. Thomas Percy's Sinology and the origins of English Romanticism
Bibliography
Index.