Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan by Grace Lavery

Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan

Grace Lavery

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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