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Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes : Bloomsbury, modernism, and China / Patricia Laurence.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laurence, Patricia.
- 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.
- Chinese literature--English influences.
- English literature--Chinese influences.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Literature)--China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 488 p. ) : ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In so doing she addresses the geographical and critical imbalances--and thus the architecture of modernist, postcolonial, Bloomsbury, and Asian studies--by placing China in an aesthetic matrix of a developing international modernism.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Historical Time Line
- Introduction
- Images on a Scroll
- Maps of Seeing
- The Historical Moment
- The Formation of Literary Communities and Conversations in China and England
- The Uses of Letters
- Empiricizing the Theoretical
- Evolving Modernisms
- CHAPTER ONE: Julian Bell Performing "Englishness"
- The Sentimental and the Modern: Pei Ju-Lian (Bell, Julian) Teaching in China
- The Provincial Turns Political
- From Fairy Stories to Letter Quarrels: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua
- Translating Together: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua
- CHAPTER TWO: Literary Communities in England and China: Politics and Art
- Imagining Other Communities: The Crescent Moon Group
- Politics and Art
- A Parallel Community: Bloomsbury
- CHAPTER THREE: East-West Literary Conversations: Exploring Civilization and Subjectivity-G. L. Dickinson and Xu Zhimo
- Terms That Fold and Unfold Meaning: Civilization and Subjectivity
- Xu Zhimo: "The Great Link with Bloomsbury"
- An English Don in a Chinese Cap: G. L. Dickinson
- The Cultivation of the Romantic Self: Xu Zhimo
- Feeling as a Transgressive Act: The Narration of "Self" in Developing Chinese Modernism
- Redefinitions of British "Civilization": G. L. Dickinson
- The Unwritten Passage to China: E. M. Forster and Xiao Qian
- "The Unpopular Normal": E. M. Forster's Expanding Notions of Transnational Sexuality, Culture, and the British Novel
- Swallowing and Being Swallowed: Poverty in China and the British Novel
- British Modernism through Chinese Eyes: Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
- Interrupted Modernism
- CHAPTER FOUR: Chinese Landscapes through British Eyes
- The Naturalist Landscape: Julian Bell
- The Painter's Eye: Vanessa Bell and Ling Shuhua.
- Constructing the "Narrow Bridge of Art": Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua
- China on a Willow Pattern Plate: Charles Lamb, George Meredith, and Arthur Waley
- Expanding "Englishness": Le Jardin Anglo-Chinois and the Kew Gardens Pagoda
- CHAPTER FIVE: Developing Modernisms
- Incorporating "Chinese" Eyes
- Chinoiserie and the International Chinese Exhibition
- "The Liquidation of Reference"
- The Aesthetic Gaze
- The Epistemology of Boundaries: Subject and Object
- The Crisis in Representation: Aesthetic Reciprocity
- Leaving Things Out: The Line
- Flatness and Plasticity
- The Literary Effect of Visual Aesthetics
- Postscript
- APPENDIX A: Index of Chinese and British Figures
- APPENDIX B: Selection from Ling Shuhua's Story "Writing a Letter" with Julian Bell's Annotations
- APPENDIX C: Table of Contents, Selections of Modernist Literature from Abroad, eds. Yuan Kejia, Dong Xengxun, Zheng Kelu, 1981
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-443) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed April 30 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781283879170
- 1283879174
- 9781611171761
- 1611171768
- OCLC:
- 835136845
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