China and the Victorian Imagination - Empires Entwined

Informationen zum Autor Ross Forman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Klappentext Ross G. Forman demonstrates how integral China and the Chinese were to the Victorian imagination and reassesses British imperialism in Asia. Zusammenfassung Studies of the literature of the British imperialism too often focus on India to the exclusion of other areas. This book redresses the balance by demonstrating how integral China and the Chinese were to the British imagination and to globalization! literature! aesthetics and popular culture from the 1840s to 1911. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: topsy-turvy Britain and China; 1. The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports; 2. Projecting from Possession Point: James Dalziel's chronicles of Hong Kong; 3. Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900; 4. Britain 'knit and nationalised': Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914; 5. Staging the celestial; 6. A cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London; Conclusion: no rest for the West.

Product details

• Authors: Ross Forman, Ross G. Forman, Ross G. (University of Warwick) Forman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9781107013155
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01315-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies