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.

Middle East.

India--In literature.

India.

China--In literature.

China.

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