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1 online resource |
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Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Figures; Introduction: 'the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay'; 1: China and the Formation of the Modernist Aesthetic Ideal; 2: Shared Affinities: Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf; 3: Roger Fry, Chinese Art and The Burlington Magazine; 4: Chinese Artistic Influences on the Vorticists in London; 5: The Idea of the Chinese Garden and British Aesthetic Modernism; 6: 'Beautiful, baleful absurdity': Chinoiserie and Modernist Ballet; 7: Fashion, Chinoiserie and Modernism |
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8: The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke's Limehouse Chinatown9: Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and the Darker Side of Chinoiserie; 10. Chinoiserie: An Unrequited Architectural Affair; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Chinoiserie (Art) -- Great Britain
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Art, British -- Chinese influences
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain
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Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Chinoiserie (Art)
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English literature
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anne Witchard, editor
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| ISBN |
9780748690978 |
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0748690972 |
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9780748690961 |
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0748690964 |
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