“Toujours la porcelaine”: George Meredith and the Willow Pattern
An iconic emblem of the Victorian fascination for domestic objects with an exotic tang, the “willow pattern” reveals the problematic nature of the circulation of imperial commodities. A classic white and blue motif which was supposed to transpose an ancestral Chinese legend, the willow pattern was i...
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Language: | English |
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2012-12-01
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Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/4450 |