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+title: "Shangri-La and History in 1930s England"
+authors:
+  - "Lawrence Normand"
+external_url: "https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/article/view/8857/10309"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v24i1.108"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r0R8s8HcqG-4AEZwjCtZ1EQyqnVGTxPs/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: british
+tags:
+  - litcrit
+year: 2007
+month: may
+journal: bsr
+volume: 24
+number: 1
+pages: "108--120"
+openalexid: W2168846088
+---
+
+> *Lost Horizon* (1933) can be understood historically in relation to contemporary Western ideas about Buddhism, and in response to the sense of historical crisis of Western modernity.
+> This paper also shows that elements of a more genuine Buddhism are extracted from orientalist materials and deployed by Hilton in ways that make the novel a carrier of quasi-Buddhist ideas.
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