Oriental prospects : western literature and the lure of the East /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Barfoot, C. C., Haen, Theo d'
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.
Series:	DQR studies in literature ; 22.
Subjects:	East and West in literature. Exoticism in literature. Middle East > In literature. India > In literature. China > In literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Oriental prospects
The Elizabethans and the Turk at Constantinople / Ton Hoenselaars
Sir William Jones and literary orientalism / Garland Cannon
William Beckford's symbolic appropriation of the oriental context / El Habib Benrahhal Serghini
English romantic poets and the "free-floating Orient" / C.C. Barfoot
Walter Scott's Orient : The Talisman / Paul Pelckmans
In search of the noble svage : travellers' accounts in old Indies government journals (1816-1830) / Gerard Termorshuizen
The "heathen Chinee" and the "yellow peril" : pseudo-Chinoiserie in popular fiction / Robert Druce
Irish studies and Orientalism : Ireland and the Orient / Joep Leerssen
Recitatif / Michael Beard
The vulnerabilities of an honest broker : Edward Said and the problems of theory / Willem Otterspeer
Orientalism and the French left : the case of Tel Quel and China / Ieme van der Poel
Orientalist visions and revisions : Edward Said's Orientalism and representations of the Orient in Paul Bowles / William Schouppe
Cartographical revisionism in the new literatures in English / John Thieme
Post-colonial literary studies : a neo-orientalism? / Elleke Boehmer
Unquiet on the western front : the "orientalism" of contemporary Chinese-American women writers / Edward D. Graham.