The recent turn to political and historical readings of Romanticism has given us a more complex picture of the institutional, cultural and sexual politics of the period. There has been a tendency, however, to confine such study to the European scene. In this book, Nigel Leask sets out to study the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey (together with a number of other major and minor Romantic writers, including Robert Southey and Tom Moore) in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'. Combining historical and theoretical approaches with detailed analyses of specific works, it examines the anxieties and instabilities of Romantic representations of the Ottoman Empire, India, China and the Far East. It argues that these anxieties were not marginal but central to the major concerns of British Romantic writers. The book is illustrated with a number of engravings from the period, giving a visual dimension to the discussion of Romantic representations of the East.
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In this book, Nigel Leask sets out to study the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey (together with a number of other major and minor Romantic writers, including Robert Southey and Tom Moore) in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'.
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The present chapter is concerned with Byron's own 'poetical policy' of orientalism, which formed part of a broader cultural engagement with the question of imperialism, productive of so much stimulation and anxiety in Regency Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prometheus Unbound, Eastern Tales, Rammohun Roy, British India, Childe Harold, Don Juan, East India Company, The Island, French Revolution, The Bride, Lady Morgan, Lalla Rookh, Sir William Jones, James Mill, Byron's Tales, Edward Said, John Barrell, Mill's History, Tom Moore, London Magazine, Queen Mab, Shelley's Alastor, Crabb Robinson, English Opium Eater, Gayatri Spivak New!
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The present chapter is concerned with Byron's own 'poetical policy' of orientalism, which formed part of a broader cultural engagement with the question of imperialism, productive of so much stimulation and anxiety in Regency Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prometheus Unbound, Eastern Tales, Rammohun Roy, British India, Childe Harold, Don Juan, East India Company, The Island, French Revolution, The Bride, Lady Morgan, Lalla Rookh, Sir William Jones, James Mill, Byron's Tales, Edward Said, John Barrell, Mill's History, Tom Moore, London Magazine, Queen Mab, Shelley's Alastor, Crabb Robinson, English Opium Eater, Gayatri Spivak New!
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- Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley on 29 pages
- Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron on 13 pages
- Don Juan (The English poets) by Lord George Gordon Byron on 13 pages
- Biographia Literaria: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions (v. 7) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 9 pages
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics) by Thomas De Quincey on 7 pages
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- Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830 by Timothy Fulford on 7 pages
- The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Robert M. Ryan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Other Empire: British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Filiz Turhan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850 (New Cultural Studies) by Rajani Sudan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832: An Anthology by Ian Haywood on page 122, and Back Matter
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