Ross G. Forman

China and the Victorian Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ross G. Forman demonstrates how integral China and the Chinese were to the Victorian imagination and reassesses British imperialism in Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781316600993
• ISBN-10: 1316600998
• Artikelnr.: 44123773

Autorenporträt

Ross Forman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: topsy-turvy Britain and China
1. The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports
2. Projecting from Possession Point: James Dalziel's chronicles of Hong Kong
3. Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900
4. Britain 'knit and nationalised': Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914
5. Staging the celestial
6. A cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London
Conclusion: no rest for the West.