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from Part II - Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2019
Ever since the appearance of Edward Said’s postcolonial tour de force, Orientalism (1978), Byron’s taste for Eastern characters and settings has provoked much commentary from scholars. Byron, after all, spent a large part of his poetic career depicting the contemporary and historical Middle East, starting with Canto II of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812), through the Turkish tales of 1813–14 (The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, Lara) to his Assyrian historical drama Sardanapalus (1821) and Don Juan’s Greek and Turkish cantos (1819–23).
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