TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavery,Grace Elisabeth
TI  - Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan 
SN  - 9780691183626
AV  - NX543 
U1  - 700.942 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Aesthetics, Japanese
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Art, Japanese
KW  - Arts, British
KW  - Japanese influences
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abjection
KW  - Aesthetic Theory
KW  - Aestheticism
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Ambivalence
KW  - Anacoluthon
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Anecdote
KW  - Ann Cvetkovich
KW  - Asyndeton
KW  - Basil Hall Chamberlain
KW  - Bathos
KW  - Bernard Leach
KW  - Biography
KW  - Bureaucrat
KW  - Caricature
KW  - Castration
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Culture of Japan
KW  - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
KW  - Edward Said
KW  - Emoji
KW  - Enthusiasm
KW  - Epigram
KW  - Epigraph (literature)
KW  - Ernest Fenollosa
KW  - Essay
KW  - Euphemism
KW  - Ezra Pound
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Fors Clavigera
KW  - Genre
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Historicism
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Hokku
KW  - Hokusai
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Hyperbole
KW  - Hypocrisy
KW  - I. A. Richards
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Irony
KW  - Japanese aesthetics
KW  - Japanese art
KW  - Japanese poetry
KW  - John Ruskin
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Libretto
KW  - Literature
KW  - Manuscript
KW  - Memoir
KW  - Metanarrative
KW  - Metonymy
KW  - Modernism
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Mr
KW  - Narcissism
KW  - Narration
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Natsume Soseki
KW  - Novel
KW  - Novelist
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Oscar Wilde
KW  - Parody
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Prose
KW  - Pseudonym
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Publication
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - Quentin Tarantino
KW  - Racism
KW  - Roland Barthes
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Rossetti
KW  - Satire
KW  - Sentimentality
KW  - Shame
KW  - Sui Sin Far
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Symptom
KW  - The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Various
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thomas Carlyle
KW  - Thought
KW  - Ukiyo-e
KW  - V
KW  - Victorian era
KW  - W. B. Yeats
KW  - Western culture
KW  - Writer
KW  - Writing
KW  - Yone Noguchi
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface: Another Empire: Victorian Japan --; Introduction: Analytic of the Exquisite --; 1. Not About Japan --; 2. All Margin --; 3. The Pre-Raphaelite Haiku --; 4. Loving John Ruskin --; 5. The Sword and the Chrysanthemum --; Notes --; Index --; Illustration credits; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691189963?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691189963
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691189963/original
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