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Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes : Bloomsbury, modernism, and China / Patricia Laurence.
Van Pelt Library PR478.B46 L38 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laurence, Patricia Ondek, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xin yue she.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Bloomsbury group.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Comparative literature--English and Chinese.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Chinese and English.
- English literature--Chinese influences.
- Chinese literature--English influences.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature)--China.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 488 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Images on a Scroll 5
- Maps of Seeing 9
- The Historical Moment 12
- The Formation of Literary Communities and Conversations in China and England 15
- The Uses of Letters 22
- Empiricizing the Theoretical 29
- Evolving Modernisms 34
- Chapter 1 Julian Bell Performing "Englishness" 37
- The Sentimental and the Modern: Pei-ju-li (Bell Ju-lian) Teaching in China 37
- The Provincial Turns Political 58
- From Fairy Stories to Letter Quarrels: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua 63
- Translating Together: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua 82
- Chapter 2 Literary Communities in England and China: Politics and Art 100
- Imagining Other Communities: The Crescent Moon Group 100
- Politics and Art 112
- A Parallel Community: Bloomsbury 118
- Chapter 3 East-West Literary Conversations: Exploring Civilization and Subjectivity
- G. L. Dickinson and Xu Zhimo 126
- Terms That Fold and Unfold Meaning: Civilization and Subjectivity 126
- Xu Zhimo: "The Great Link with Bloomsbury" 129
- An English Don in a Chinese Cap: G. L. Dickinson 135
- The Cultivation of the Romantic Self: Xu Zhimo 137
- Feeling as a Transgressive Act: The Narration of "Self" in Developing Chinese Modernism 155
- Redefinitions of British "Civilization": G. L. Dickinson 160
- The Unwritten Passage to China: E. M. Forster and Xiao Qian 176
- "The Unpopular Normal": E. M. Forster's Expanding Notions of Transnational Sexuality, Culture, and the British Novel 184
- Swallowing and Being Swallowed: Poverty in China and the British Novel 198
- British Modernism through Chinese Eyes: Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf 202
- Interrupted Modernism 216
- Chapter 4 Chinese Landscapes through British Eyes 222
- The Naturalist Landscape: Julian Bell 227
- The Painter's Eye: Vanessa Bell and Ling Shuhua 234
- Constructing the "Narrow Bridge of Art": Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua 246
- China on a Willow Pattern Plate: Charles Lamb, George Meredith, and Arthur Waley 296
- Expanding "Englishness": Le Jardin Anglo-Chinois and the Kew Gardens Pagoda 313
- Chapter 5 Developing Modernisms 326
- Incorporating "Chinese" Eyes 326
- Chinoiserie and the International Chinese Exhibition 335
- "The Liquidation of Reference" 341
- The Aesthetic Gaze 346
- The Epistemology of Boundaries: Subject and Object 351
- The Crisis in Representation: Aesthetic Reciprocity 358
- Leaving Things Out: The Line 367
- Flatness and Plasticity 375
- The Literary Effect of Visual Aesthetics 378
- Appendix B Selection from Ling Shuhua's Story "Writing a Letter" with Julian Bell's Annotations 403
- Appendix C Table of Contents, Selections of Modernist Literature from Abroad, eds. Yuan Kejia, Dong Xengxun, Zheng Kelu, 1981 409.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [411]-443) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1570035059
- OCLC:
- 52056025
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