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China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / Ross G. Forman.

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Van Pelt Library PR129.C6 F67 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Forman, Ross G.
Series:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 85.
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 85
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature.
English literature--Chinese influences.
Relations.
Great Britain--Civilization--Chinese influences.
Great Britain.
Civilization.
Great Britain--Relations--China.
China--In literature.
China.
Dalziel, James, 1876-1934--Criticism and interpretation.
Dalziel, James.
Physical Description:
x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-288) and index.
ISBN:
9781107013155
1107013151
OCLC:
823927711

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