Orientalist poetics
Subtitle: the Islamic Middle East in nineteenth-century English and French poetry
By: Emily A. Haddad.
Series: [The nineteenth century]; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: English poetry -- Oriental influences; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; French poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Civilization, Islamic, in literature; French poetry -- Oriental influences; Islam in literature; Orientalism; Middle East -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[202]-214) and index.
"Series statement taken from jacket"
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam; title: and Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer; title: Instruction in The Revolt of lslam; title: Tyranny: the Orient's chief export; title: Tyranny's comrades: religion and sexism; title: Orientalism and Shelley's poetics; title: Morals vs. materials: instruction and pleasure in Thalaba; title: the Destroyer; title: The desert, Islam: foreignness as a hermeneutic category; title: Foreignness general and particular: character as archetype; title: Extremes: too many notes?; title: Southey and his readers: delighted, informed, or; title: distressed; title: Representation and the "Arabesque ornament"; title: 2 Representing, misrepresenting, not representing:; title: Victor Hugo's Les Orientales and Alfred de Musset's "Namouna"; title: Hugo's preface: poetic ideals and the Orient as subject; title: "La Douleur du pacha": the Orient as origin or as end; title: "Adieux de l'hotesse arabe": stasis; title: "Novembre": returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis; title: Hugo's critics: E.J. Ch6telat; title: George Gordon Byron's Don Juan: "But what's reality?"; title: "Namouna": fragmentary representation; title: No narrative, no representation; title: Authority, referents, and representation; title: The Middle East: "impossible a decrire"; title: 3 Orientalist poetics and the nature of the Middle East; title: William Wordsworth and the nature of the Middle East; title: Felicia Hemans's ambivalence; title: Truth in illustrating Robert Southey and Thomas Moore; title: Leconte de Lisle: "Le Desert," "le desert du monde"; title: Theophile Gautier: the composite desert; title: "In deserto": European nature in absentia; title: Out of the desert: Byron's "Turkish Tales"; title: Matthew Arnold in Bukhara: nature in the Middle; title: Eastern city; title: Alfred Tennyson's Basra: natural phenomena and urban; title: construction; title: Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde; title: 4 The Orient's art, orienting art; title: A confederation of the Middle East and art: Wordsworth; title: The Middle East as a source of art: Leconte de Lisle; title: Middle Eastern art and Gautier's imagination; title: Nightingales and roses I: Walter Savage Landor and; title: oriental literature; title: Nightingales and roses II: Moore and the Orient as an; title: ideal; title: Hemans's Middle Eastern models; title: Grounding a poetics in the 1001 Nights: Tennyson; title: The Orient and Tennyson's p(a)lace of art; title: Gautier's orientalist poetics and art for art's sake; title: Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde: culmination; title: Bibliography; title: Index.