Quaint, Exquisite

Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan

Quaint, Exquisite
Grace Lavery
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Paperback
h235 x 156mm - 240pg
10 Aug 2021 US
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9780691227795
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How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics 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 encou
"Winner of the NAVSA Best Book of the Year, North American Victorian Studies Association" "Quaint, Exquisite is a beautifully written book. . . . [Lavery] is an invigorating, compelling collaborative critical voice which demands, and amply repays, the reader' s time and thought. "---Gail Marshall, Times Higher Education "[Lavery' s] musings are worlds away from the archival explorations and excavations preoccupying most Victorianists now. But both approaches, hands-on and theoretical, are valid and valuable . . . . Grace Lavery combines them, most eloquently when reading individual works. That is rather a rare skill. "---Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement
Grace E. Lavery is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Program in Critical Theory and the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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ISBN-13: 9780691227795
Published: 10 Aug 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 240

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