Research Catalog

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Description

1. vii, 279 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient becomes itself a twinned criticism of 'Romantic' egotism and the Orientalism practiced by earlier generations. The book goes further to claim that poems like Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Byron's 'Eastern' Tales, or even Keats's Lamia anticipate key issues at stake in postcolonial studies more generally"--

Series statement

1. Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 109

Uniform title

1. Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 109.

Subject

1. 1800 - 1899
2. English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
3. English literature > Asian influences
4. Civilization, Oriental, in literature
5. Romanticism > Great Britain
6. East and West in literature
7. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
8. English poetry
9. Romanticism
10. Lyrik
11. Englisch
12. Orientbild
13. Great Britain

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Preface. Populous solitudes : the cases of Byron and Wordsworth -- Introduction. From solipsism to Orientalism -- 1. 'The Book of Fate' and 'The Vice of the East': Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and high romantic Orientalism; Interchapter I. Montesquieu : nature and the Oriental despot; 2. Byron's lament: Lara (1814) and the specter of Orientalism -- 3. The spirit of Oriental solitude: Shelley's Alastor (1816) and Epipsychidion (1821); Interchapter II. Rousseau's foreigners -- 4. 'The great sandy desert of politics': the Orient and solitude in The Revolt of Islam (1818) -- 5. 'Unperplexing bliss': the Orient in Keats's Poetics; Bibliography.

Call number

1. JFE 15-3

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-273) and index.

Author

1. Warren, Andrew, 1978- author.

Title

1. The Orient and the young Romantics / Andrew Warren.

Publisher

1. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 109
2. Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 109.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-273) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800 - 1899

LCCN

1. 2014020425

ISBN

1. 9781107071902 (hardback)
2. 1107071909 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFE 15-3