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Siting China in Germany: eighteenth-century chinoiserie and its modern legacy


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Abstract

"Introduces and interprets the complex history of German chinoiserie in the long eighteenth century, focusing on its emergence in literature and the arts"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Superfluous imitation : porcelain palaces in Dresden and Rastatt -- Shifting frames : Hesse-Kassel's Wilhelmsthal and Wilhelmshöhe palace gardens -- Afterlife : romantic translation in chinois Dresden -- Ancestry : critical gathering in Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar.

Publisher

  • Publication

    University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]


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  • Period

    1700-1930


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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 9780271082370
    • 0271082372

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