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American Orient : imagining the East from the colonial era through the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weir, David, 1947 April 20-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2011]
Subjects:
United States > Civilization > East Asian influences.
East Asia > In literature.
United States > Intellectual life.
United States > Relations > East Asia.
East Asia > Relations > United States.
East Asia > Foreign public opinion, American.
Public opinion > United States > History.
East and West > History.
American literature > History and criticism.
Orientalism > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The eighteenth century : from politics to theology
  • The nineteenth century : from theology to scholarship
  • The fin de siecle : from scholarship to aesthetics
  • The twentieth century I : from aesthetics to modernism
  • The twentieth century II : from modernism to mass culture
  • Afterword.