The Orient and the Young Romantics
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The Orient and the Young Romantics
（Cambridge studies in romanticism, 109）
Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p.262-273) and index
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内容説明
Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient becomes itself a twinned criticism of 'Romantic' egotism and the Orientalism practised by earlier generations. The book goes further to claim that poems like Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Byron's 'Eastern' Tales, or even Keats's Lamia anticipate key issues at stake in postcolonial studies more generally.
目次
- Introduction: from solipsism to Orientalism
- 1. 'The Book of Fate' and 'The Vice of the East': Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and High Romantic Orientalism
- Interchapter I. Montesquieu: nature and the Oriental despot
- 2. Byron's Lament: Lara (1814) and the specter of Orientalism
- 3. The spirit of Oriental solitude: Shelley's Alastor (1816) and Epipsychidion (1821)
- Interchapter II. Rousseau's foreigners
- 4. 'The Great Sandy Desert of Politics': the Orient and solitude in The Revolt of Islam (1818)
- 5. 'Unperplexing Bliss': the Orient in Keats's Poetics
- Bibliography.
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