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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.
List of contents
Introduction; Chapter I, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, 'FitzGerald's Timelines'; Chapter II, Florence Boos, 'Empires and Scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Near East'; Chapter III, Eleonora Sasso, '
aja'ib,
mutalibun, and
hur al-ayan: Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the
Arabian Nights'; Chapter IV, Andrea Mariani, 'The Use of Contradictions in John La Farge's Prismatic Syncretism'; Chapter V, Elisa Bizzotto, ' "Strange webs with Eastern merchants": The Orient of Aesthetic Poetry'; Chapter VI, Miriam Sette, 'Rudyard Kipling,
The Mark of the Beast and the Elusive Monkey'; Chapter VII, Christopher Ainslie Cowell, 'Borrowed Verses: Code and Representation Within the First Travelogue of the City of Hong Kong, 1841-2'; Chapter VIII, Ben Cocking, 'Newby and Thesiger: Humour and Lament in the Hindu Kush'; Chapter IX, Fabrizio Impellizzeri, 'The Exoticism of Téchiné's
Les Sœurs Brontë: The Dream of an Impossible Elsewhere'; Bibliography; Index.
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.
