Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/zRslqcr Britain's Chinese Eye Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain By: Elizabeth Chang Publisher: Stanford University Press Print ISBN: 9780804759458, 0804759456 eText ISBN: 9780804775878, 0804775877 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2010 Format: EPUB Available from $ 60.00 USD SKU 9780804775878 This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences. For many Britons, China was much more than a geographical location; it was also a way of seeing and being seen that could be either embraced as creative inspiration or rejected as contagious influence. In both cases, the idea of China's visual difference stood in negative contrast to Britain's evolving sense of the visual and literary real. To better grasp what Romantic and Victorian writers, artists, and architects were doing at home, we must also understand the foreign objects found in their midst and what they were looking at abroad.
