Description: Further DetailsTitle: Quaint, ExquisiteCondition: NewEAN: 9780691227795ISBN: 9780691227795Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/10/2021Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Grace Elisabeth LaveryLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of JapanISBN-10: 0691227799Description: How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encounter, showing how the rise of Japan led to a major transformation of Western aesthetics at the dawn of globalization.Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, queer theory, textual criticism, and a wealth of in-depth archival research, Grace Lavery provides a radical new genealogy of aesthetic experience in modernity. She argues that the global popularity of Japanese art in the late nineteenth century reflected an imagined universal standard of taste that Kant described as the “subjective universal” condition of aesthetic judgment. The book features illuminating cultural histories of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, English derivations of the haiku, and retellings of the Madame Butterfly story, and sheds critical light on lesser-known figures such as Winnifred Eaton, an Anglo-Chinese novelist who wrote under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna, and Mikimoto Ryuzo, a Japanese enthusiast of the Victorian art critic John Ruskin. Lavery also explains the importance and symbolic power of such material objects as W. B. Yeats’s prized katana sword and the “Japanese vellum” luxury editions of Oscar Wilde.Quaint, Exquisite provides essential insights into the modern understanding of beauty as a vehicle for both intimacy and violence, and the lasting influence of Japanese forms today on writers and artists such as Quentin Tarantino.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Quaint, Exquisite
Title: Quaint, Exquisite
EAN: 9780691227795
ISBN: 9780691227795
Release Date: 08/10/2021
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan
ISBN-10: 0691227799
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Quaint, Exquisite : Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Topic: Comparative Literature, Asian / Japanese, General, Modern / 19th Century
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.4 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Art
Item Weight: 8.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Grace Elisabeth Lavery
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
