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Informationen zum Autor Eleonora Sasso is a Lecturer in English with the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara. She is the author of Victorian Dominatrices: Women of Arcane Power in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Arachne Publishing, 2012), How the Writings of William Morris Shaped the Literary Style of Tennyson, Swinburne, Gissing, and Yeats (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011) and William Morris Between Utopia and Medievalism (Arachne, 2007). Klappentext 'In her theoretically alert and aesthetically responsive study, Eleonora Sasso writes compellingly about the Pre-Raphaelites' use of Orientalism. Strikingly independent in its insights, the book suggests how important Eastern culture was for the Pre-Raphaelites. New perceptions abound on every stylishly written page of this fine book.' Michael O'Neill, Durham University The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century, weaving together literary, linguistic and cognitive analyses of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, illustrations and writings, socio-cultural investigations of the Orient, and rhetorical considerations about Arabian forms of writing. It takes as a starting point Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) in order to investigate the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture. As the book demonstrates, the Pre-Raphaelites and their associates appeared to be the most eligible representatives of a profoundly conservative manifestation of the Orient, of its mystic aura, criminal underworld and feminine sensuality, or to put it into Arabic terms, of its aja'ib (marvels), mutalibun (treasure hunters) and hur al-ayn (femmes fatales). Eleonora Sasso is a Lecturer in English with the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara. Cover image, The Beloved ('The Bride'), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1865-6 (c) akg-images / WHA / World History Archive Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0716-8 BarcodeInvestigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture....
