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Item Number: 119627
Title: The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Porter, David
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ISBN: 9780521192996
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 25cm., hardcover, 230pp. illus. Contents: Part I. China and the Aesthetics of Exoticism: 1. Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste. 2. Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese Garden. Part II. What Do Women Want? 3. Gendered Utopias in transcultural context. 4. William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism. Part III. Of Rocks, Gardens, and Goldfish: 5. The socio-aesthetics of the Scholar's Stone. 6. Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of Chinoiserie. Part IV. China and the Invention of Englishness: 7. Chinaware and the evolution of a modern domestic ideal. 8. Thomas Percy's Sinology and the origins of English Romanticism.

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