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Author Starr, Chloƫ F

Title Red-light novels of the late Qing / Chloƫ F. Starr
Published Leiden : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 291 pages)
Series China studies ; 14
China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 14.
Contents Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One Text and Context; Chapter Two The Narrator Framed; Chapter Three Characterisation in Context; Chapter Four Structure: The Textual Representation of Itself; Bibliography; Index
Summary Traditionally both literary theorists and university courses divide between 'classical' and 'modern' literature. This volume offers a comprehensive literary reading of six nineteenth-century Chinese red-light novels and assesses how and why they alter our view of late Qing fiction and the authorial self
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index
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Subject Chinese fiction -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism
Courtesans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chinese fiction
Courtesans in literature
Qing Dynasty (China)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007297177
ISBN 9789047428596
9047428595
1281920959
9781281920959
9786611920951
6611920951