Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism

ISBN-13: 9781107110328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 280 str.

Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud; James Jupp

Opis

Explores the relationship between ideas of the East and the struggle for democratic rights in the Romantic period.

Recenzje

'… Cohen-Vrignaud's rich study demonstrates that there is still much to debate and discuss, and it will provide a valuable scholarly resource.' James Watt, Review of English Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: radical Orientalism and the rights of man; 1. Cruel and unusual romance: Beckford, Byron, and the abomination of violence; 2. Reading the Oriental Riot Act: petition, assembly, and Shelley's constitutional sublime; 3. Splendors and miseries of the British Sultanate: economic Orientalism, inequality, and radical satire; 4. Reasoning like a Turk: indolence and fatalism in Sardanapalus and The Last Man; 5. Byronic infidelity and despotic individuality: sex, religion, and free agency; Bibliography.