Late Victorian orientalism : representations of the East in nineteenth-century literature, art and culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge /

Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) in order to inves...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sasso, Eleonora (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2020.
Series:	Anthem nineteenth-century series
Subjects:	1800-1899 English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Orientalism in literature. English literature Orientalism in literature Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Chapter I, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, 'FitzGerald's Timelines'; Chapter II, Florence Boos, 'Empires and Scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Near East'; Chapter III, Eleonora Sasso, 'aja'ib, mutalibun, and hur al-ayan: Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the Arabian Nights'; Chapter IV, Andrea Mariani, 'The Use of Contradictions in John La Farge's Prismatic Syncretism'; Chapter V, Elisa Bizzotto, ' "Strange webs with Eastern merchants": The Orient of Aesthetic Poetry'; Chapter VI, Miriam Sette, 'Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast and the Elusive Monkey'; Chapter VII, Christopher Ainslie Cowell, 'Borrowed Verses: Code and Representation Within the First Travelogue of the City of Hong Kong, 1841-2'; Chapter VIII, Ben Cocking, 'Newby and Thesiger: Humour and Lament in the Hindu Kush'; Chapter IX, Fabrizio Impellizzeri, 'The Exoticism of Téchiné's Les Sœurs Brontë: The Dream of an Impossible Elsewhere'; Bibliography; Index.

Late Victorian orientalism : representations of the East in nineteenth-century literature, art and culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge /

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