China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / / Ross G. Forman [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Forman Ross G.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3251
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; English literature - Chinese influences
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization Chinese influences; China In literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China -- The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports -- Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong -- Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 -- Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 -- Staging the celestial -- A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London -- Conclusion: No rest for the West.
• Sommario/riassunto: What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.
• Altri titoli varianti: China & the Victorian Imagination
• Titolo autorizzato: China and the Victorian imagination
• ISBN: 1-107-27238-6; 1-139-89059-X; 1-107-27179-7; 1-316-60099-8; 1-107-27837-6; 1-139-00380-1; 1-107-27388-9; 1-107-27511-3; 1-107-27714-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779990103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 85.