Byron and Orientalism
ISBN: 9781443809450
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

Of all the English Romantic poets Byron is often thought of as the one who was most familiar Other the East. His travels, it is claimed, give him a huge advantage Other which contemporaries like Southey, Moore, Shelley, and Coleridge, who had comparable orientalist ambitions, could not compete. Byron and Orientalism sets out to examine this thesis. It looks at ByronOCOs knowledge of the East, and of its religions in particular, in greater detail than ever before. Essays are included on ByronOCOs ..."


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