Visualizing Alexander Pope’s ‘Altars of Japan’
Visualizing Alexander Pope’s ‘Altars of Japan’
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想象亚历山大·波普的“日本祭坛”
DOI:
10.1093/notesj/gjy205
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发表时间:
2019
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0.1
通讯作者:
Ohsumi Megumi
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作者:
Ayako Nishino;Chloe Viatte;井関麻帆;風早悟史;Ohsumi Megumi
In the Twickenham Edition, Geoffrey Tillotson explains that the ‘shining Altars of Japan’(III. 107) in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock (1714) are ‘lacquered tables’. 2 Tillotson’s note merits elucidation, as ‘lacquered’suggests that the furniture utilizes genuine lacquer, even though ‘Japan’derives from japanning, the European technique of imitating lacquer. This article proposes possibilities for Pope’s ‘Japan’, by identifying differing styles of heterogeneous furnishings that employed eastern materials and western technologies.