UPC: 9781474454865 | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture: The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism (Paperback)

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Investigates the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century. Weaving together literary linguistic and cognitive analyses of Pre-Raphaelite paintings illustrations and writings socio-cultural investigations of the Orient and rhetorical considerations about Arabian forms of writing the terms of critical debate surrounding the East are redefined. 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 the book 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). Key Features: Looks at how selected examples of Pre-Raphaelite writings acted as major vehicles for raising awareness of cultural diversity Redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said s Orientalism (1978) By investigating the pervasive influence of The Arabian Nights on Pre-Raphaelite texts this study aims at bringing together Western and Eastern forms of writing; Outlines the reasons why the writings by John Ruskin D.G. Rossetti Christina Rossetti William Morris Algernon Swinburne Aubrey Beardsley and Ford Madox Ford play such a prominent role in the Oriental debate