The Chinese taste in eighteenth-century England / David Porter.
2013
DA485 .P674 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
The Chinese taste in eighteenth-century England / David Porter.
Author
Porter, David, 1965- author.
ISBN
9781107662377 paperback
1107662370 paperback
1107662370 paperback
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013, c2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 230 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Call Number
DA485 .P674 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48251041
Summary
"Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalised world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art, and decorative objects. However, they were also often troubled by the alien aesthetic sensibility these goods embodied. This ambivalence figures centrally in the period's experience of China and of contact with foreign countries and cultures more generally. David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Through case studies of individual figures, including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and broader reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's readings develop new interpretations of eighteenth-century ideas of luxury, consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic nationalism. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : monstrous beauty
China and the aesthetics of exoticism
Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste
Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese garden
What do women want?
Gendered utopias in transcultural context
William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism
Of rocks, gardens, and goldfish
The socio-aesthetics of the Chinese scholar's stone
Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of chinoiserie
China and the invention of Englishness
Chinaware and the evolution of a modern domestic ideal
Thomas Percy's sinology and the origins of English romanticism.
China and the aesthetics of exoticism
Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste
Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese garden
What do women want?
Gendered utopias in transcultural context
William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism
Of rocks, gardens, and goldfish
The socio-aesthetics of the Chinese scholar's stone
Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of chinoiserie
China and the invention of Englishness
Chinaware and the evolution of a modern domestic ideal
Thomas Percy's sinology and the origins of English romanticism.