Late Victorian Orientalism Representations of East in Nineteenth Century Literature, Art

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.

About the author

Eleonora Sasso is Associate Professor in English at the G. d'Annunzio 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eleonora Sasso (Editor), Sasso Eleonora (Editor)
• Authors: Eleonora Sasso
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.01.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781785273278
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-327-8
• Pages: 240
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Subjects: Essays, ART / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, The visual, decorative or fine arts: treatments and subjects