Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes Bloomsbury, modernism, and China
"Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of South Carolina Press
c2003.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30949531*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Jeffrey C. Kinkley
- Images on a scroll
- Maps of seeing
- The historical moment
- The formation of literary communities and conversations in China and England
- The uses of letters
- Empiricizing the theoretical
- Evolving modernisms
- Julian Bell performing "Englishness"
- The sentimental and the modern: Pei-ju-li (Bell Ju-lian) teaching in China
- The provincial turns political
- From fairy stories to letter quarrels: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua
- Translating together: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua
- Literary communities in England and China: politics and art
- Imagining other communities: the Crescent Moon Group
- Politics and art
- A parallel community: Bloomsbury
- East-West literary conversations: exploring civilization and subjectivity--G.L. Dickinson and Xu Zhimo
- Terms that fold and unfold meaning: civilization and subjectivity
- Xu Zhimo: "The great link with Bloomsbury"
- An English don in a Chinese cap: G.L. Dickinson
- The cultivation of the Romantic self: Xu Zhimo
- Feeling as a transgressive act: the narration of "self" in developing Chinese modernism
- Redefinitions of British "civilization": G.L. Dickinson
- The unwritten passage to China: E.M. Forster and Xiao Qian
- "The unpopular normal": E.M. Forster's expanding notions of transnational sexuality, culture, and the British novel
- Swallowing and being swallowed: poverty in China and the British novel
- British modernism through Chinese eyes: Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.
