Late Victorian Orientalism : representations of the East in nineteenth-century literature, art and culture from the pre-Raphaelites to John la Farge / [edited by] Eleonora Sasso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
Contents:
The exoticism of Téchine's Les Sœurs Brontë: the dream of an impossible elsewhere / Fabrizio Impellizzeri. FitzGerald's timelines / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- Empires and scapegoats: the pre-Raphaelites in the near East / Florence S. Boos -- Aja'ib, mutalibun and hur al-ayn: Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the Arabian nights / Eleonora Sasso -- The use of contradictions in John La Farge's prismatic syncretism / Andrea Mariani -- 'Strange webs with Eastern merchants': the Orient of aesthetic poetry / Elisa Bizzotto -- Rudyard Kipling, The mark of the beast and the elusive monkey / Miriam Sette -- Borrowed verses: code and representation within the first travelogue of the city of Hong Kong, 1841-42 / Christopher Cowell -- Newby and Thesiger: humour and lament in the Hindu Kush / Ben Cocking -- The exoticism of Téchine's Les Sœurs Brontë: the dream of an impossible elsewhere / Fabrizio Impellizzeri.
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