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This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period. In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became increasingly defined by the processes and products of image-making. Examining moments of military and diplomatic crisis, this book considers how artists and photographers operating "in the field" helped to define British visions of war and peace. The Victorians increasingly turned to visual spectacle to help them compose imperial sovereignty. The British Empire was thus rendered into a spectacle of "peace," from world's fairs to staged diplomatic rituals. Yet this occurred against a backdrop of incessant colonial war-campaigns which, far from being ignored, were in fact unprecedentedly visible within the cultural forms of Victorian society. Visual media thus shaped the contours of imperial statecraft and established many of the aesthetic and ethical frames within which the colonial violence was confronted

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Immigrant Protest: Noborder Scholarship -- In/Visibility -- Part I: The Aesthetic Performance of Immigrant Protest -- Part II: In the Field: Acts of Immigrant Protest -- Conclusion: No Border Scholarship for a Noborder Politics -- Works Cited -- I. The Aesthetic Performance of Immigrant Protest -- 1. Dare to Wear-a Mosque! Immigrant Protest as Cross-Cultural Pedagogy -- Mosque ≠ Dome + Minaret -- Islam Is Not a Monolithic Structure -- Muslim Does Not Mean Terrorist -- The Veil Does Not Equal Oppression -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2. The Political Aesthetics of Immigrant Protest -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. Becoming British: Exploring Citizenship through Arts Practice -- Becoming British -- Blood & Soil: We were always meant to meet . . . -- Notes -- Work Cited -- 4. Border Disorder -- Works Cited -- 5. Loving the Alien: Indigenous Protest and Neo-Colonial Violence in James-Cameron's Avatar -- Racial Cinema -- Anthropological Cinema -- Politics and "Avatar Activism" -- Going Native-Loving the Alien -- Protest and Representation -- Conclusion: Companion Species -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6. Pedagogy of Rage -- Frozen River in the Classroom: "White Trash"/"Alien Trash" -- (Il)legality and Borders: the Idea of Difference -- The Affect of Rage -- Rage and Pedagogy: "An Ethics of the Affective in the Classroom" -- Coda -- Notes -- Works Cited -- II. In the Field: Acts of Immigrant Protest -- 7. On Israel/Palestine and the Politics of Visibility -- Supplementing the Field of the Visible -- The Iconic Order -- "It seems like you're living on a different planet." -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8. Everyday Acts of Resistance: The Precarious Lives of Asylum Seekers in Glasgow -- Asylum Seekers, Dispersal, and "Non-Settlement" as the Catalyst for Action.

Philosophical biography / Ray Monk -- Ethics in the modern world / Roger Crisp -- The role of political philosophy / Jonathan Wolff -- Aesthetics and music / Aaron Ridley -- Power, knowledge and injustice / Miranda Fricker -- Feminism and pornography / Rae Langton -- Mind matters / Tim Crane -- The concerns of analytic philosophy / Michael Martin -- On vagueness / Timothy Williamson -- The rebirth of metaphysics / Robin Le Poidevin -- Continental philosophy and emancipation / Simon Critchley -- The analytic and the continental / Simon Glendinning -- Sartre's existentialsim / Christina Howells -- Post-analytic philosophy / Stephen Mulhall -- A post-human hell / Keith Ansell Pearson -- Philosophy and the public / Nigel Warburton

Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.