Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

Informationen zum Autor David Porter is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Klappentext A major study of eighteenth-century cultural history and the history of contact and exchange between China and the West. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: David Porter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521192996
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19299-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; China, England, English, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800