The Pre-Raphaelites And Orientalism: Language And Cognition In Remediations Of The East Hardcover

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Eleonora Sasso

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.

9781474407168

English

Edinburgh University Press

1 Jul 2018

160

Eleonora Sasso is a Lecturer in English with the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara.