Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism

ISBN: 9781107527041 出版年：2015 页码：280 Gerard Cohen-vrignaud Cambridge University Press

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.