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1 online resource (318 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Topsy-turvy Britain and China; Imagined possibilities; Empires entwined; Overview: Why China and the Chinese?; Why China matters; Albion's East: disciplinary and historical concerns and Britain's imagined view of China; Chinese boxes, or China contained; Chapter 1 The manners and customs of the modern Chinese Narrating China through the treaty ports; The literary littoral; Concessions: a history; The conventions of late Victorian culture on the China Coast; Excursions in the interior. |
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Chapter 2 Projecting from Possession Point James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong KongTheorizing from the fringes of Asia; Hugging China; Onshore/offshore: tampering with identikit models of empire; Whither the white lords of the island?; Hybridity in Hong Kong: "despised alike of East and West"; Uncommon trysts: the unbearable morality of immoral relations; Chapter 3 Peking plots Narrating the Boxer Rebellion of 1900; A state of siege; The power of disguise; Misguided motives: narrating the Chinese point of view. |
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Chapter 4 Britain "knit and nationalised" Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914War of the world; Insidious insiders; Technologies of takeover; Chapter 5 Staging the Celestial; Chin-chin-chinaman: Chinese stage types; China on a plate; Blackface, yellowface, and loss of face; Bloodthirsty Buddhas; Spectacular politics and dramatic moralities; East of opium: dramas of morality, politics, and empathy; Chapter 6 A Cockney Chinatown The literature of Limehouse, London; "A Chinaman's chance"; A paw thing but mine own; Dens of iniquity; Conclusion No rest for the West; Notes. |
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Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and ChinaChapter 1: The manners and customs of the modern Chinese Narrating China through the treaty ports; Chapter 2: Projecting from Possession Point James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong; Chapter 3: Peking plots Narrating the Boxer Rebellion of 1900; Chapter 4: Britain "knit and nationalised" Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914; Chapter 5: Staging the Celestial; Chapter 6: A Cockney Chinatown The literature of Limehouse, London; Conclusion: No rest for the West; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index. |
| Summary |
Ross Forman demonstrates how integral China and the Chinese were to the Victorian imagination and reassesses British imperialism in Asia. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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19th century |
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English literature -- Chinese influences.
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English literature -- Chinese influences. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
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Great Britain. |
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Civilization. |
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China -- In literature.
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China. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forman, Ross. China and the Victorian Imagination. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107275119 |
| ISBN |
9781461936619 (electronic book) |
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1461936616 (electronic book) |
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9781139003803 (electronic book) |
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1139003801 (electronic book) |
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9781107275119 |
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1107275113 |
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9781107013155 |
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1107013151 |
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