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- Title
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan by Grace E. Lavery (review).
- Authors
Biswas, Preeshita
- Abstract
Lavery analyzes the cinematic adaptations of Pierre Loti's novella I Madame Chrysanthème i (1887) as well as modern films - namely, I Audition i (1999) and the I Kill Bill i trilogy (2003-04) - to show the contemporary cultural significance of the I katana i in revivifying the idea of a "quaint" and "exquisite" Japan. Japan's "deviant" aestheticism provoked the Victorians to forge "an immanent formal and thematic" bond with Japan, which confronted Western nations as an "other empire." The Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity concluded imperial Japan's two centuries of I sakoku i (national seclusion).
- Subjects
JAPAN; HAIKU; AESTHETICS; ART materials; TOKUGAWA Period, Japan, 1600-1868; ART history; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 2, p333
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Product Review
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2022.a900632