Orientalist poetics the Islamic Middle East in nineteenth-century English and French poetry / Emily A. Haddad.

Author/creator Haddad, Emily A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate,
Descriptionvi, 220 p.; 24 cm.
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Subjects
English poetry--Oriental influences.
English poetry--19th century. --History and criticism.
French poetry--19th century. --History and criticism.
Islamic civilization in literature.
French poetry--Oriental influences.
Islam in literature.
Orientalism.
Middle East--In literature.

Series[The nineteenth century]
Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England) ^A504767
Contents Machine generated contents note: To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam and Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer -- Instruction in The Revolt of lslam -- Tyranny: the Orient's chief export -- Tyranny's comrades: religion and sexism -- Orientalism and Shelley's poetics -- Morals vs. materials: instruction and pleasure in Thalaba -- the Destroyer -- The desert, Islam: foreignness as a hermeneutic category -- Foreignness general and particular: character as archetype -- Extremes: too many notes? -- Southey and his readers: delighted, informed, or -- distressed -- Representation and the "Arabesque ornament" -- 2 Representing, misrepresenting, not representing: -- Victor Hugo's Les Orientales and Alfred de Musset's "Namouna" -- Hugo's preface: poetic ideals and the Orient as subject -- "La Douleur du pacha": the Orient as origin or as end -- "Adieux de l'hotesse arabe": stasis -- "Novembre": returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis -- Hugo's critics: E.J. Ch6telat -- George Gordon Byron's Don Juan: "But what's reality?" -- "Namouna": fragmentary representation -- No narrative, no representation -- Authority, referents, and representation -- The Middle East: "impossible a decrire" -- 3 Orientalist poetics and the nature of the Middle East -- William Wordsworth and the nature of the Middle East -- Felicia Hemans's ambivalence -- Truth in illustrating Robert Southey and Thomas Moore -- Leconte de Lisle: "Le Desert," "le desert du monde" -- Theophile Gautier: the composite desert -- "In deserto": European nature in absentia -- Out of the desert: Byron's "Turkish Tales" -- Matthew Arnold in Bukhara: nature in the Middle -- Eastern city -- Alfred Tennyson's Basra: natural phenomena and urban -- construction -- Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde -- 4 The Orient's art, orienting art -- A confederation of the Middle East and art: Wordsworth -- The Middle East as a source of art: Leconte de Lisle -- Middle Eastern art and Gautier's imagination -- Nightingales and roses I: Walter Savage Landor and -- oriental literature -- Nightingales and roses II: Moore and the Orient as an -- ideal -- Hemans's Middle Eastern models -- Grounding a poetics in the 1001 Nights: Tennyson -- The Orient and Tennyson's p(a)lace of art -- Gautier's orientalist poetics and art for art's sake -- Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde: culmination -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p.[202]-214) and index.
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LCCN 2001046047
ISBN0754603040 (alk. paper)

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