Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 - ''The Indispensable East''

This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring the relationship between Orientalism, Decadence, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that representations of the East played a critical role in the literary landscape of Decadence over this period.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• List of Abbreviations


• Note on Translations


• Introduction. Perfect and Poisonous Dependencies: Orientalism and Decadence


• 1: 'Away to Egypt': Oscar Wilde and Orientalist Objectification


• 2: 'Against Civilisation': Arthur Symons and Violet Fane's Fictions of Constantinople


• 3: 'Feeling Oriental': Embodied Orients in Decadent Writing by Paul Scheerbart and Else Lasker-Schüler


• 4: 'Ex septentrione lux': Stefan George's Cosmopolitan Empire and Aesthetic Fascism


• Conclusion: 'The Indispensable East'


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Katharina Herold-Zanker is an Assistant Professor in Literature and Drama at Durham University. Her principal interests are in late-Victorian literature, Comparative Literature and twenty-first century drama. Her journal publications include an article on intermediality in the Decadent performance of Anita Berber and an article for ^iFeminist Modernist Studies on war plays written by Mina Loy, Vernon Lee and Else Lasker-Schüler. After finishing her doctorate at Oxford, she was employed at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she started research on her current project investigating the impact of feminist literary theories on contemporary Anglophone drama.

Summary

This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring the relationship between Orientalism, Decadence, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that representations of the East played a critical role in the literary landscape of Decadence over this period.

Product details

• Authors: Katharina Herold-Zanker, Katharina (Assistant Professor Herold-Zanker
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198880974
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888097-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, Germany, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form