British Romantic Writers and the East
Subtitle: Anxieties of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521604444
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The present chapter is concerned with Byron's own 'poetical policy' of orientalism, which formed part of a broader cultural engagement with the question of imperialism, productive of so much stimulation and anxiety in Regency Britain.