Oriental prospects
Subtitle: western literature and the lure of the East
By: edited by C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen.
Contributors: Barfoot, C. C.; Haen, Theo d'.
Series: DQR studies in literature -- 22
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: East and West in literature.; Exoticism in literature.; Middle East -- In literature.; India -- In literature.; China -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Oriental prospects; title: The Elizabethans and the Turk at Constantinople / Ton Hoenselaars; title: Sir William Jones and literary orientalism / Garland Cannon; title: William Beckford's symbolic appropriation of the oriental context / El Habib Benrahhal Serghini; title: English romantic poets and the "free-floating Orient" / C.C. Barfoot; title: Walter Scott's Orient : The Talisman / Paul Pelckmans; title: In search of the noble svage : travellers' accounts in old Indies government journals (1816-1830) / Gerard Termorshuizen; title: The "heathen Chinee" and the "yellow peril" : pseudo-Chinoiserie in popular fiction / Robert Druce; title: Irish studies and Orientalism : Ireland and the Orient / Joep Leerssen; title: Recitatif / Michael Beard; title: The vulnerabilities of an honest broker : Edward Said and the problems of theory / Willem Otterspeer; title: Orientalism and the French left : the case of Tel Quel and China / Ieme van der Poel; title: Orientalist visions and revisions : Edward Said's Orientalism and representations of the Orient in Paul Bowles / William Schouppe; title: Cartographical revisionism in the new literatures in English / John Thieme; title: Post-colonial literary studies : a neo-orientalism? / Elleke Boehmer; title: Unquiet on the western front : the "orientalism" of contemporary Chinese-American women writers / Edward D. Graham.