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Author:

Weir, David, 1947 Apr. 20-

Title:

American Orient : imagining the East from the colonial era through the twentieth century / David Weir.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 300 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

East Asia--Foreign public opinion, American.
East Asia--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--East Asia.
Orientalism--United States--History.
United States--Intellectual life.
East Asia--In literature.
American literature--History and criticism.
United States--East Asian influences.--East Asian influences.
East and West--History.
Public opinion--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The eighteenth century : from politics to theology -- The nineteenth century : from theology to scholarship -- The fin de siecle : from scholarship to aesthetics -- The twentieth century I : from aesthetics to modernism -- The twentieth century II : from modernism to mass culture -- Afterword.

ISBN:

1558498788 (library cloth : alk. paper)
9781558498785 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558498796 (paper : alk. paper)
9781558498792 (paper : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)696916064

LCCN:

2011014407

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)