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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Publishing Details
Late Victorian Orientalism: Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge
By (Author) Eleonora Sasso
Anthem Press
Anthem Press
30th June 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary essays
The Arts: treatments and subjects
809.933585
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Width 153mm, Height 229mm, Spine 26mm
454g
Description
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.
Reviews
This collection of thoughtful and original essays refi nes the way we think about Orientalism, demonstrating how late Victorian writers and artists virtually internalised the imperial project. In these essays, the political is the personal, the public is the private and aesthetic pleasure is not innocent. John M. Ganim, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, USA, and Author of Medievalism and Orientalism
The nine essays collected in Late Victorian Orientalism: Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art, and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge offer severalriches, especially those that truly fall into the category delineated by the collections title.Several chapters focus fruitfully on material that all would agree falls under the subjectof Victorian culture, if not exclusively its late period.-Barry Milligan, Victorian Studies, Volume 64, Number 2, Winter 2022, pp. 325-326
Author Bio
Eleonora Sasso is Associate Professor in English at the G. dAnnunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Her major research fields include Victorian literature and culture, the Pre-Raphaelites, cognitive linguistics, intersemiotic and audio-visual translation, and Canadian studies.
