Late Victorian Orientalism Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 FitzGerald’s timelines
- Chapter 2 Empires and scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Near East
- Chapter 3 Aja’ib, mutalibun and hur al-ayn: Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the Arabian Nights
- Chapter 4 The use of contradictions in John La Farge’s prismatic syncretism
- Chapter 5 ‘Strange webs with Eastern merchants’: The Orient of aesthetic poetry
- Chapter 6 Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast and the elusive monkey
- Chapter 7 Borrowed verses: Code and representation within the first travelogue of the city of Hong Kong, 1841–42
- Chapter 8 Newby and Thesiger: Humour and lament in the Hindu Kush
- Chapter 9 The exoticism of Téchiné’s Les Soeurs Brontë: The dream of an impossible elsewhere
- Bibliography
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 FitzGerald’s timelines
- Chapter 2 Empires and scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Near East
- Chapter 3 Aja’ib, mutalibun and hur al-ayn: Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the Arabian Nights
- Chapter 4 The use of contradictions in John La Farge’s prismatic syncretism
- Chapter 5 ‘Strange webs with Eastern merchants’: The Orient of aesthetic poetry
- Chapter 6 Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast and the elusive monkey
- Chapter 7 Borrowed verses: Code and representation within the first travelogue of the city of Hong Kong, 1841–42
- Chapter 8 Newby and Thesiger: Humour and lament in the Hindu Kush
- Chapter 9 The exoticism of Téchiné’s Les Soeurs Brontë: The dream of an impossible elsewhere
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Late Victorian OrientalismRepresentations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2020