China and the Victorian imagination
Forman, Ross G
China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / Ross G Forman - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - x, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 85. .
Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China --
The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports --
Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong --
Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 --
Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 --
Staging the celestial --
A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London --
Conclusion: No rest for the West.
This book presents China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, explaining how ideas about China and the Chinese were received throughout the British empire.
9781316600993
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
English Literature
Old English literatures
English & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
China -- In literature.
Civilization -- Chinese influences.
Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
820.932 FOR
China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / Ross G Forman - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - x, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 85. .
Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China --
The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports --
Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong --
Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 --
Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 --
Staging the celestial --
A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London --
Conclusion: No rest for the West.
This book presents China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, explaining how ideas about China and the Chinese were received throughout the British empire.
9781316600993
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
English Literature
Old English literatures
English & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
China -- In literature.
Civilization -- Chinese influences.
Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
820.932 FOR
