American Orient
Subtitle: imagining the East from the colonial era through the twentieth century
By: David Weir
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781558498792; 9781558498785
Subjects: American Foreign public opinion; East and West; Intellectual life; Orientalism; History and criticism; American literature; Relations; Civilization; Public opinion; East Asian influences; In literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The eighteenth century : from politics to theology; title: The nineteenth century : from theology to scholarship; title: The fin de siecle : from scholarship to aesthetics; title: The twentieth century I : from aesthetics to modernism; title: The twentieth century II : from modernism to mass culture; title: Afterword.