Islam and romantic orientalism literary encounters with the Orient
Did European writers and scholars create an image of the Islamic world as a place of tyrrany, unreason and immorality, destined to be subjected to and exploited by the civilized West? This work looks at some of the main literary texts of the Romantic movement in order to explore this question
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| Language: | English |
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Tauris
1994
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Add Tag | Summary: | Did European writers and scholars create an image of the Islamic world as a place of tyrrany, unreason and immorality, destined to be subjected to and exploited by the civilized West? This work looks at some of the main literary texts of the Romantic movement in order to explore this question |
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| Physical Description: | xxxv, 296 pages 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and index |
| ISBN: | 1850437858 9781860640261 1860640265 |
Fabulous orients fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785