China And The Victorian Imagination
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China And The Victorian Imagination
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Author : Ross G. Forman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
China And The Victorian Imagination written by Ross G. Forman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with History categories.
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 G. 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'.
China And The Victorian Imagination
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Author : Ross Forman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
China And The Victorian Imagination written by Ross Forman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with China categories.
Ross Forman demonstrates how integral China and the Chinese were to the Victorian imagination and reassesses British imperialism in Asia.
China And The Victorian Imagination
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Author : Ross G. Forman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
China And The Victorian Imagination written by Ross G. Forman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 G. 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'.
Representations Of China In British Children S Fiction 1851 1911
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Author : Shih-Wen Chen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Representations Of China In British Children S Fiction 1851 1911 written by Shih-Wen Chen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children’s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children’s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children’s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children’s literature.
Oceania And The Victorian Imagination
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Author : Peter H. Hoffenberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Oceania And The Victorian Imagination written by Peter H. Hoffenberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.
Britain S Chinese Eye
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Author : Elizabeth Chang
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-20
Britain S Chinese Eye written by Elizabeth Chang and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.
Victorian Literature Energy And The Ecological Imagination
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Author : Allen MacDuffie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-29
Victorian Literature Energy And The Ecological Imagination written by Allen MacDuffie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores how Victorian fiction helped create an environmental consciousness by articulating questions about sustainable energy use.
Colonial Law In India And The Victorian Imagination
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Author : Leila Neti
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Colonial Law In India And The Victorian Imagination written by Leila Neti and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.
Evolution And Imagination In Victorian Children S Literature
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Author : Jessica Straley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-06
Evolution And Imagination In Victorian Children S Literature written by Jessica Straley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
An interdisciplinary study that explores the impact of evolutionary theory on Victorian children's literature.
Nineteenth Century Opera And The Scientific Imagination
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Author : David Trippett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-22
Nineteenth Century Opera And The Scientific Imagination written by David Trippett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with Music categories.
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.