Making England Western - Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture

The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. This book reveals that romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue. "Saree Makdisi has written a book that in its central line of argument and its detail is thoroughly original and compelling, deeply learned and detailed, erudite and entertaining. His skillful accounts of key romantic writers and detailed knowledge of English social history and place create a vivid picture of social life and conditions that few literary analyses can boast." (David T. Goldberg, University of California, Irvine)" Zusammenfassung The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. This book reveals that romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue.

Product details

• Authors: Saree Makdisi, Makdisi Saree
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2014
• EAN: 9780226923130
• ISBN: 978-0-226-92313-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Colonialism & imperialism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000