Orientalist Poetics : The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry.
Haddad, Emily A.
Orientalist Poetics : The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages) - The Nineteenth Century Series . - The Nineteenth Century Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam and Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer -- Instruction in The Revolt of Islam -- 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 Orientates 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'hôtesse arabe": stasis -- Novembre": returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis -- Hugo's critics: E.J. Chételat -- 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 à décrire -- 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 Désert," "le désert du monde -- Théophile 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.
Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics. It convincingly demonstrates orientalism's centrality to the evolution of poetry and poetics in both nations, and provides a singularly comprehensive and definitive analysis of the aesthetic impact of orientalism on nineteenth-century poetry. Because it examines the poetry of the entire century across both national literatures, the book is in a unique position to articulate the essential part orientalism plays in major developments of nineteenth-century poetics. Orientalist Poetics effectively bridges the gap between the analysis of poetics and the analysis of orientalism. In showing that major poetic developments have roots in orientalism, Haddad's book offers a valuable and innovative revisionist view of nineteenth-century literary history.
9781351913218
French poetry.
Electronic books.
2001046047
821/.8093256
Orientalist Poetics : The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (229 pages) - The Nineteenth Century Series . - The Nineteenth Century Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam and Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer -- Instruction in The Revolt of Islam -- 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 Orientates 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'hôtesse arabe": stasis -- Novembre": returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis -- Hugo's critics: E.J. Chételat -- 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 à décrire -- 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 Désert," "le désert du monde -- Théophile 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.
Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics. It convincingly demonstrates orientalism's centrality to the evolution of poetry and poetics in both nations, and provides a singularly comprehensive and definitive analysis of the aesthetic impact of orientalism on nineteenth-century poetry. Because it examines the poetry of the entire century across both national literatures, the book is in a unique position to articulate the essential part orientalism plays in major developments of nineteenth-century poetics. Orientalist Poetics effectively bridges the gap between the analysis of poetics and the analysis of orientalism. In showing that major poetic developments have roots in orientalism, Haddad's book offers a valuable and innovative revisionist view of nineteenth-century literary history.
9781351913218
French poetry.
Electronic books.
2001046047
821/.8093256