
The Orient and the Young Romantics
Andrew Warren(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 6. November 2014
Book
Hardback
286 pages
978-1-107-07190-2 (ISBN)
Description
Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient becomes itself a twinned criticism of 'Romantic' egotism and the Orientalism practised by earlier generations. The book goes further to claim that poems like Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Byron's 'Eastern' Tales, or even Keats's Lamia anticipate key issues at stake in postcolonial studies more generally.
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'... this book is a compelling critical achievement in part because it is finely wrought, but also because in it Andrew Warren raises questions about the poetry of the second generation that are very much worth raising and discussing ... Warren's study offers us real insight and sustained critical pleasures.' Theresa M. Kelley, Studies in RomanticismMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-07190-2 (9781107071902)
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Person
Andrew Warren is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He specializes in Romanticism, poetry, philosophy and critical theory.
Content
Introduction: from solipsism to Orientalism; 1. 'The Book of Fate' and 'The Vice of the East': Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and High Romantic Orientalism; Interchapter I. Montesquieu: nature and the Oriental despot; 2. Byron's Lament: Lara (1814) and the specter of Orientalism; 3. The spirit of Oriental solitude: Shelley's Alastor (1816) and Epipsychidion (1821); Interchapter II. Rousseau's foreigners; 4. 'The Great Sandy Desert of Politics': the Orient and solitude in The Revolt of Islam (1818); 5. 'Unperplexing Bliss': the Orient in Keats's Poetics; Bibliography.