Contents: Introduction: Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown; Part 1 Chinoiserie: Enchantment. Part 2 'The Lamp of Young Aladdin': English Chineseness 1780-1900: 'Ritchenesse and plentiffullnesse'; The Chineseness of Ala-'u-'d-din; Magical palaces: Chineseries in London; The pains of opium, 1839-1858; The fall of Far Cathay: 1859; Finale: from limelight to Limehouse. Part 3 Inventing Chinatown: A threepenny omnibus ticket to 'Limey-housey-Causey-way'; Cockney John Chinaman; Thomas Burke: Nights in Town: a London autobiography (1915). Part 4 The Laureate of Limehouse: Un monde artificiel des paysages d'opéra comique; Locating Burke's Bohemia. Part 5 Nymopholepsy: 'A fool and his folly'; Erotic fairylands of the fin-de siècle; 'Which is the reality and which the pantomime?'; Juvenile delinquents in Chinatown; Conclusion: Go, lovely rose: reading Burke after Lolita; Bibliography; Index.
Anne Witchard is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Westminster, UK
’Anne Witchard's study is a partial but impressive examination of an obscure, "reforgotten" figure whose work sometimes bordered on genteel puilp, but tapped into large contemporary currents.’ Times Literary Supplement ’...painstaking and thoughtful...’ English Literature in Transition
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