Item Number: 119627 Title: The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England Author: Porter, David Price: Not Available 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. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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