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02814aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 A11A7138CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190905010153 008 181030t20192019njua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018959174 020 $a 0691183627 020 $a 9780691183626 035 $a (OCoLC)1059264687 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d IND $d GZN $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a BH221 J3 L38 2019 100 1 $a Lavery, Grace E. $e author. 245 10 $a Quaint, exquisite : $b Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan / $c Grace E. Lavery. 246 30 $a Victorian aesthetics and the idea of Japan 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xvi, 219 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-204) and index. 520 8 $a 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. 650 0 $a Aesthetics, Japanese. 650 0 $a Art, Japanese $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Aesthetics, Modern $y 19th century. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103014431.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A11A7138CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search