In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West.
In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West.
David Porter is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction. Monstrous beauty Part I. China and the Aesthetics of Exoticism: 1. Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste 2. Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese Garden Part II. What Do Women Want?: 3. Gendered Utopias in transcultural context 4. William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism Part III. Of Rocks, Gardens, and Goldfish: 5. The socio-aesthetics of the Scholar's Stone 6. Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of Chinoiserie Part IV. China and the Invention of Englishness: 7. Chinaware and the evolution of a modern domestic ideal 8. Thomas Percy's Sinology and the origins of English Romanticism Bibliography Index.
Introduction. Monstrous beauty Part I. China and the Aesthetics of Exoticism: 1. Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste 2. Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese Garden Part II. What Do Women Want?: 3. Gendered Utopias in transcultural context 4. William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism Part III. Of Rocks, Gardens, and Goldfish: 5. The socio-aesthetics of the Scholar's Stone 6. Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of Chinoiserie Part IV. China and the Invention of Englishness: 7. Chinaware and the evolution of a modern domestic ideal 8. Thomas Percy's Sinology and the origins of English Romanticism Bibliography Index.
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