Quaint, exquisite : Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan / Grace E. Lavery.
Quaint, exquisite : Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan / Grace E. Lavery.
Quaint, exquisite : Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan / Grace E. Lavery.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/4235
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English
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xvi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encounter, showing how the rise of Japan led to a major transformation of Western aesthet...
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Quaint, exquisite : Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan / Grace E. Lavery.
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Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-204) and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/4235
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74VKVlVdPBoX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVlVdPBoX
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ISBN
0691183627 hardcover
9780691183626 hardcover
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111.8509034
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991024261617202626
