Oriental prospects : western literature and the lure of the East / edited by C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Barfoot, C. C.
• Haen, Theo d'.

Series:

• DQR studies in literature ; 22.
• DQR studies in literature ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• East and West in literature.
• Exoticism in literature.
• Middle East--In literature.
• India--In literature.
• India.
• China--In literature.
• China.
• Middle East.
• Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.

Contents:

• Introduction : Oriental prospects
• The Elizabethans and the Turk at Constantinople / Ton Hoenselaars
• Sir William Jones and literary orientalism / Garland Cannon
• William Beckford's symbolic appropriation of the oriental context / El Habib Benrahhal Serghini
• English romantic poets and the "free-floating Orient" / C.C. Barfoot
• Walter Scott's Orient : The Talisman / Paul Pelckmans
• In search of the noble savage : travellers' accounts in old Indies government journals (1816-1830) / Gerard Termorshuizen
• The "heathen Chinee" and the "yellow peril" : pseudo-Chinoiserie in popular fiction / Robert Druce
• Irish studies and Orientalism : Ireland and the Orient / Joep Leerssen
• Recitatif / Michael Beard
• The vulnerabilities of an honest broker : Edward Said and the problems of theory / Willem Otterspeer
• Orientalism and the French left : the case of Tel Quel and China / Ieme van der Poel
• Orientalist visions and revisions : Edward Said's Orientalism and representations of the Orient in Paul Bowles / William Schouppe
• Cartographical revisionism in the new literatures in English / John Thieme
• Post-colonial literary studies : a neo-orientalism? / Elleke Boehmer
• Unquiet on the western front : the "orientalism" of contemporary Chinese-American women writers / Edward D. Graham.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9042005823

OCLC:

40363944