The Chinese taste in eighteenth-century England / David Porter.
"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 figur...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Monstrous beauty
- pt. 1. China and the aesthetics of exoticism
- Eighteenth-century fashion and the aesthetics of the Chinese taste
- Cross-cultural aesthetics in William Chambers' Chinese garden
- pt. 2. What do women want?
- Gendered utopias in transcultural context
- William Hogarth and the gendering of Chinese exoticism
- pt. 3. Of rocks, gardens, and goldfish
- The socio-aesthetics of the Chinese scholar's stone
- Horace Walpole and the Gothic repudiation of Chinoiserie
- pt. 4. 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.