China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined
Title:
China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
Author:
Forman, Ross G., author.
ISBN:
9781316600993
Personal Author:
Edition:
First paperback edition.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Physical Description:
x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 85
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 85.
Contents:
Introduction: topsy-turvy Britain and China -- The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports -- Projecting from Possession Point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong -- Peking plots: narrating the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 -- Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 -- Staging the celestial -- A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London -- Conclusion: no rest for the West.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-288) and index.
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