LEADER 03158nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910785396303321 005 20230725025221.0 010 $a0-8047-7587-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804775878 035 $a(CKB)2670000000051819 035 $a(EBL)584768 035 $a(OCoLC)669512780 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413205 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11268608 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413205 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10381841 035 $a(PQKB)11144994 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC584768 035 $a(DE-B1597)564363 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804775878 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL584768 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10413416 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770317 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000051819 100 $a20090824d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBritain's Chinese eye$b[electronic resource] $eliterature, empire, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain /$fElizabeth Hope Chang 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-5945-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-227) and index. 327 $aGarden -- Plate -- Display case and den -- Photograph. 330 $aThis book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences. For many Britons, China was much more than a geographical location; it was also a way of seeing and being seen that could be either embraced as creative inspiration or rejected as contagious influence. In both cases, the idea of China's visual difference stood in negative contrast to Britain's evolving sense of the visual and literary real. To better grasp what Romantic and Victorian writers, artists, and architects were doing at home, we must also understand the foreign "objects" found in their midst and what they were looking at abroad. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAesthetics, British$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$xChinese influences 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$y19th century 607 $aChina$xIn literature 607 $aChina$vIn art 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAesthetics, British 676 $a303.48/24105109034 700 $aChang$b Elizabeth Hope$01484358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785396303321 996 $aBritain's Chinese eye$93702964 997 $aUNINA