The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East

ISBN-13: 9781474407168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Eleonora Sasso

Opis

Investigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. ‘[S]elling old lamps for new ones’: D. G. Rossetti’s Restructuring of Oriental Schemas; 2. Toward a Corporeal Orientalism: Foregrounding Arabian Erotic Figures in Algernon Swinburne and Aubrey Beardsley; 3. The Cognitive Process of Parable: John Ruskin,William Morris and the Oriental Lure of the Forbidden; 4. Consumers of Intoxicating Fruits and Elixirs: The Cognitive Grammar of Christina Rossetti’s and Ford Madox Ford’s Oriental Fairy Tales; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.