Late Victorian Orientalism Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John la Farge |
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| Editor:
| Sasso, Eleonora |
| Series title: | Anthem Nineteenth-Century Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78527-329-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2020 |
| Publisher: | Anthem Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $40.00USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.