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Radical Orientalism

Rights, Reform, and Romanticism

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Gebonden, 280 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2015
ISBN13: 9781107110328
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This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey, North Africa and Mughal India when attacking and seeking to change their government's domestic policies. Examining a broad archive ranging from satires, journalism, tracts, political and economic treatises, and public speeches, to the exotic poetry and fictions of canonical Romanticism, Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud shows that promoting colonization was not Orientalism's sole ideological function. Equally vital was its aesthetic and rhetorical capacity to alienate the people's affection from their rulers and fuel popular opposition to regressive taxation, penal cruelty, police repression, and sexual regulation.

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ISBN13:9781107110328
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:280

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Introduction: radical Orientalism and the rights of man; 1. Cruel and unusual romance: Beckford, Byron, and the abomination of violence; 2. Reading the Oriental Riot Act: petition, assembly, and Shelley's constitutional sublime; 3. Splendors and miseries of the British Sultanate: economic Orientalism, inequality, and radical satire; 4. Reasoning like a Turk: indolence and fatalism in Sardanapalus and The Last Man; 5. Byronic infidelity and despotic individuality: sex, religion, and free agency; Bibliography.

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