Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism

Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East

AvEleonora Sasso

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism' redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century. It takes as a starting point Edward Said's 'Orientalism' (1978) in order to investigate the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture. As Eleonora Sasso demonstrates, the Pre-Raphaelites and their associates appeared to be the most eligible representatives of a profoundly conservative manifestation of the Orient, of its mystic aura, criminal underworld, and feminine sensuality, or to put it into Arabic terms, of its aja'ib (marvels), mutalibun (treasure-hunters) and hur al-ayn (femmes fatales). By combining together Western and Oriental modes of art, this study fills a gap in Pre-Raphaelite and Oriental studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-06
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474407168

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Eleonora Sasso is a Lecturer in English with the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara. She is the author of Victorian Dominatrices: Women of Arcane Power in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Arachne Publishing, 2012), How the Writings of William Morris Shaped the Literary Style of Tennyson, Swinburne, Gissing, and Yeats (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011) and William Morris Between Utopia and Medievalism (Arachne, 2007).

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In her theoretically alert and aesthetically responsive study, Eleonora Sasso writes compellingly about the Pre-Raphaelites' use of Orientalism. Strikingly independent in its insights, the book suggests how important Eastern culture was for the Pre-Raphaelites. New perceptions abound on every stylishly written page of this fine book.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. ‘[S]elling old lamps for new ones’: D. G. Rossetti’s Restructuring of Oriental Schemas2. Toward a Corporeal Orientalism: Foregrounding Arabian Erotic Figures in Algernon Swinburne and Aubrey Beardsley3. The Cognitive Process of Parable: John Ruskin,William Morris and the Oriental Lure of the Forbidden 4. Consumers of Intoxicating Fruits and Elixirs: The Cognitive Grammar of Christina Rossetti’s and Ford Madox Ford’s Oriental Fairy Tales Appendix BibliographyIndex