Late Victorian Orientalism

Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge

Eleonora Sasso

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781785273278
• eBook ISBN: 9781785273292
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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 investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental texts. The Victorians envisioned the East in many different modes or Orientalisms since as Said suggested '[t]here were, perhaps, as many Orientalisms as Orientalists'. By combining together Western and Oriental modes of art, this study is not only aimed at filling a gap in Victorian and Oriental studies but also at broadening the audiences it is intended for.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 FITZGERALD’S TIMELINES
• Chapter 2 EMPIRES AND SCAPEGOATS: THE PRE-RAPHAELITES IN THE NEAR EAST
• Chapter 3 AJA’IB, MUTALIBUN AND HUR AL-AYN: ROSSETTI, MORRIS, SWINBURNE AND THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
• Chapter 4 THE USE OF CONTRADICTIONS IN JOHN LA FARGE’S PRISMATIC SYNCRETISM
• Chapter 5 ‘STRANGE WEBS WITH EASTERN MERCHANTS’: THE ORIENT OF AESTHETIC POETRY
• Chapter 6 RUDYARD KIPLING, THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND THE ELUSIVE MONKEY
• Chapter 7 BORROWED VERSES: CODE AND REPRESENTATION WITHIN THE FIRST TRAVELOGUE OF THE CITY OF HONG KONG, 1841–42
• Chapter 8 NEWBY AND THESIGER: HUMOUR AND LAMENT IN THE HINDU KUSH
• Chapter 9 THE EXOTICISM OF TÉCHINÉ’S LES SŒURS BRONTË: THE DREAM OF AN IMPOSSIBLE ELSEWHERE
• Bibliography
• Index