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1 online resource |
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| 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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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Chinoiserie (Art) -- Great Britain.
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Chinoiserie (Art) |
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Great Britain. |
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Art, British -- Chinese influences.
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Art, British. |
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain.
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Modernism (Aesthetics) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Anne Witchard, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Witchard, Anne. British Modernism and Chinoiserie. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2015 9780748690954 |
| ISBN |
9780748690978 (electronic book) |
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0748690972 (electronic book) |
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9780748690961 (electronic book) |
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0748690964 (electronic book) |
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9780748690954 |
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