British Romantic Writers and the East
Subtitle: Anxieties of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521411684
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; 19th Century English Literature; English; British Empire; 19th century; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Asian influences; East and West in literature; English literature; History and criticism
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.