Julia Kuehn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Kuehn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuehn |
| SIGNATURE | KUEHN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6338-721X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Opium’s Imperial Intimacies
Drug commodities , and opium in particular, infuse a range of literary texts. From the poetry of Coleridge and the confessions of Thomas de Quincey through to novels by Dickens, Conan Doyle and Wilde, the intoxicant transformed the Victorian geographical and literary imagination. This chapter begins with an overview of the manifold connections between British literature and opium, before turning to the way writers have imagined opium’s global geo…
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
Island Logic, Continent Logic
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Constantinople 1869–70
Polish-born, trained in Germany, with a studio in Rome and a second home in Denmark due to her marriage to sculptor and academician Adolf Jerichau, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1818–81) was a true nineteenth-century cosmopolite. She painted Europe’s elite and counted Princess Alexandra, Hans Christian Andersen, Henrik Ibsen, the Grimm brothers, and Charles Dickens among her well-wishers. She was invited by Queen Victoria to Buckingham Palace, and …
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Constantinople 1869–70
Polish-born, trained in Germany, with a studio in Rome and a second home in Denmark following her marriage to sculptor and academician Jens Adolf Jerichau, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1818–81) was a true nineteenth-century cosmopolite. She painted Europe’s elite and counted Princess Alexandra, Hans Christian Andersen, Ibsen, the Grimm brothers, and Dickens among her well-wishers. She was invited by Queen Victoria to Buckingham Palace, and her por…
George Eliot's Italian Roads
Critics have read Eliot's Romola (1862–3) and Middlemarch (1871–2) as historical novels, as examples of the female Bildungsroman or as oddities and successes, respectively, within Eliot's realist oeuvre. This essay brings these strands of enquiry together in a formalist analysis, suggesting that these must not be seen as separate but connected debates about time, space and Eliot's novelistic poetics. Using Bakhtin's idea of the meaning-making nat…
Being “Off Course” in The Small House at Allington
This essay explores the many "off course" occurrences in Trollope's The Small House at Allington (1864). Whether these courses relate to geography, romance, morality, heroism, genre or the trajectories of modernity, Trollope's novel persistently deviates from norms and expectations; not only with regard to reality but also in terms of how these conventions work as novelistic constructions. The essay reads Lily's failed romance with Crosbie, Bell'…
Journeys to a war, and the literature of the 1860s and 1870s
Analysing Albert Smith’s and Charley Dickens’s 1858 and 1860 trips to the sites of the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the article suggests that the experience of war, especially of wars fought abroad, is characterised by affective unease and epistemological breakdowns. Smith and Dickens enact war tourism in Hong Kong, Canton and Shanghai as they perform incongruous and tone-deaf cross-cultural relations in a ‘theatre of war’. Similarly, contemporary n…
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
Colonial cosmopolitanism
This essay examines the concept of a “colonial cosmopolitanism”, a contradiction in terms, but a combination that was commonly invoked in the Victorian era. Over the past decade, the concept of “cosmopolitanism” has been appropriated for studies of the Victorian novel, on the one hand, and analyses of Grand Tour and modern(ist) city travelogues, on the other. It has, however, been applied all too rarely to the context of nineteenth-century, colon…
Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China
As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. For members of China's diasporic community, the rise of China created ripples of change, influencing communities, culture, and communication, and even challenging the very concept of diaspora. Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China examines how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora re…
Eulogiseth Marie
This essay offers an overview of scholarly research conducted on late‐Victorian bestselling author Marie Corelli over the past few decades. It first traces the various phases of scholarly interest in this popular writer: from biography to bibliography and ‘rediscovery’, to the ‘publishing phenomenon’ and zeitgeist criticism of the past 10 years. In a second step the essay then offers a personal assessment of where Corelli scholarship might be goi…
Exotic Harem Paintings
Exotic Harem PaintingsGender, Documentation, and Imagination Julia Kuehn (bio) “Orientalism is only a phase in the cult of the Exotic,” wrote French art historian Philippe Jullian in his study on the genre of painting that scholars have, since the nineteenth century, commonly referred to as Orientalist.1 In the most general sense Orientalist art, which was pioneered by the French and then developed by British and other European artists, refers to…
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, “Egypt 1870”
Elisabeth Baumann was born in Warsaw in 1819 to a German mapmaker, Philip Adolph Baumann, and his German wife, Johanne Frederikke Reyer. Her early training took her to Berlin and, from 1838, to the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, a leading one in its day. According to Hans Christian Andersen, who would later write a biography of his friend Elisabeth, the famous German painter Peter von Cornelius much admired Baumann's paintings, and speaking of them h…
China Abroad
Literary translation is a much-discussed subject in Chinese studies, but, for reasons that demand investigation, translations of foreign literature into Chinese tend to get far more attention from Chinese studies scholars than translations of Chinese literature into foreign languages. This happens in spite of abundant evidence of a long history of translation and circulation of Chinese literature in the other direction, beyond linguistic and nati…
Travel writing, form, and empire
Knowing Bodies, Knowing Self
This essay foregrounds three encounters with China in English-language travelogues, written by British, Australian and American women between 1880 and 1920: the encounter with Chinese women, footbinding and miscegenation. Discussing issues of gender and race this essay draws on models from feminist theory, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory, which have featured prominently in travel writing studies in recent years. In close readi…
The Strategies of the Popular Novel
A Century of Travels in China
Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People’s Republic, China’s history has been one of extraordinary change and stubborn…
Being “Off Course” in The Small House at Allington
This essay explores the many "off course" occurrences in Trollope's The Small House at Allington (1864). Whether these courses relate to geography, romance, morality, heroism, genre or the trajectories of modernity, Trollope's novel persistently deviates from norms and expectations; not only with regard to reality but also in terms of how these conventions work as novelistic constructions. The essay reads Lily's failed romance with Crosbie, Bell'…
Exotic Harem Paintings
Exotic Harem PaintingsGender, Documentation, and Imagination Julia Kuehn (bio) “Orientalism is only a phase in the cult of the Exotic,” wrote French art historian Philippe Jullian in his study on the genre of painting that scholars have, since the nineteenth century, commonly referred to as Orientalist.1 In the most general sense Orientalist art, which was pioneered by the French and then developed by British and other European artists, refers to…
A Century of Travels in China
Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People’s Republic, China’s history has been one of extraordinary change and stubborn…
Knowing Bodies, Knowing Self
This essay foregrounds three encounters with China in English-language travelogues, written by British, Australian and American women between 1880 and 1920: the encounter with Chinese women, footbinding and miscegenation. Discussing issues of gender and race this essay draws on models from feminist theory, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory, which have featured prominently in travel writing studies in recent years. In close readi…
The Strategies of the Popular Novel
China Abroad
Literary translation is a much-discussed subject in Chinese studies, but, for reasons that demand investigation, translations of foreign literature into Chinese tend to get far more attention from Chinese studies scholars than translations of Chinese literature into foreign languages. This happens in spite of abundant evidence of a long history of translation and circulation of Chinese literature in the other direction, beyond linguistic and nati…
Travel writing, form, and empire
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, “Egypt 1870”
Elisabeth Baumann was born in Warsaw in 1819 to a German mapmaker, Philip Adolph Baumann, and his German wife, Johanne Frederikke Reyer. Her early training took her to Berlin and, from 1838, to the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, a leading one in its day. According to Hans Christian Andersen, who would later write a biography of his friend Elisabeth, the famous German painter Peter von Cornelius much admired Baumann's paintings, and speaking of them h…
Exotic Harem Paintings
Exotic Harem PaintingsGender, Documentation, and Imagination Julia Kuehn (bio) “Orientalism is only a phase in the cult of the Exotic,” wrote French art historian Philippe Jullian in his study on the genre of painting that scholars have, since the nineteenth century, commonly referred to as Orientalist.1 In the most general sense Orientalist art, which was pioneered by the French and then developed by British and other European artists, refers to…
Eulogiseth Marie
This essay offers an overview of scholarly research conducted on late‐Victorian bestselling author Marie Corelli over the past few decades. It first traces the various phases of scholarly interest in this popular writer: from biography to bibliography and ‘rediscovery’, to the ‘publishing phenomenon’ and zeitgeist criticism of the past 10 years. In a second step the essay then offers a personal assessment of where Corelli scholarship might be goi…
Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China
As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. For members of China's diasporic community, the rise of China created ripples of change, influencing communities, culture, and communication, and even challenging the very concept of diaspora. Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China examines how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora re…
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
Colonial cosmopolitanism
This essay examines the concept of a “colonial cosmopolitanism”, a contradiction in terms, but a combination that was commonly invoked in the Victorian era. Over the past decade, the concept of “cosmopolitanism” has been appropriated for studies of the Victorian novel, on the one hand, and analyses of Grand Tour and modern(ist) city travelogues, on the other. It has, however, been applied all too rarely to the context of nineteenth-century, colon…
Journeys to a war, and the literature of the 1860s and 1870s
Analysing Albert Smith’s and Charley Dickens’s 1858 and 1860 trips to the sites of the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the article suggests that the experience of war, especially of wars fought abroad, is characterised by affective unease and epistemological breakdowns. Smith and Dickens enact war tourism in Hong Kong, Canton and Shanghai as they perform incongruous and tone-deaf cross-cultural relations in a ‘theatre of war’. Similarly, contemporary n…
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Constantinople 1869–70
Polish-born, trained in Germany, with a studio in Rome and a second home in Denmark following her marriage to sculptor and academician Jens Adolf Jerichau, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1818–81) was a true nineteenth-century cosmopolite. She painted Europe’s elite and counted Princess Alexandra, Hans Christian Andersen, Ibsen, the Grimm brothers, and Dickens among her well-wishers. She was invited by Queen Victoria to Buckingham Palace, and her por…
George Eliot's Italian Roads
Critics have read Eliot's Romola (1862–3) and Middlemarch (1871–2) as historical novels, as examples of the female Bildungsroman or as oddities and successes, respectively, within Eliot's realist oeuvre. This essay brings these strands of enquiry together in a formalist analysis, suggesting that these must not be seen as separate but connected debates about time, space and Eliot's novelistic poetics. Using Bakhtin's idea of the meaning-making nat…
Being “Off Course” in The Small House at Allington
This essay explores the many "off course" occurrences in Trollope's The Small House at Allington (1864). Whether these courses relate to geography, romance, morality, heroism, genre or the trajectories of modernity, Trollope's novel persistently deviates from norms and expectations; not only with regard to reality but also in terms of how these conventions work as novelistic constructions. The essay reads Lily's failed romance with Crosbie, Bell'…
Island Logic, Continent Logic
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Constantinople 1869–70
Polish-born, trained in Germany, with a studio in Rome and a second home in Denmark due to her marriage to sculptor and academician Adolf Jerichau, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1818–81) was a true nineteenth-century cosmopolite. She painted Europe’s elite and counted Princess Alexandra, Hans Christian Andersen, Henrik Ibsen, the Grimm brothers, and Charles Dickens among her well-wishers. She was invited by Queen Victoria to Buckingham Palace, and …
Opium’s Imperial Intimacies
Drug commodities , and opium in particular, infuse a range of literary texts. From the poetry of Coleridge and the confessions of Thomas de Quincey through to novels by Dickens, Conan Doyle and Wilde, the intoxicant transformed the Victorian geographical and literary imagination. This chapter begins with an overview of the manifold connections between British literature and opium, before turning to the way writers have imagined opium’s global geo…
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
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