Late Victorian Orientalism

Eleonora Sasso is Associate Professor in English at the G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Her major research fields include Victorian literature and culture, the Pre-Raphaelites, cognitive linguistics, intersemiotic and audio-visual translation, and Canadian studies.

• Introduction; Chapter I, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, ‘FitzGerald’s Timelines’; Chapter II,  Florence Boos, ‘Empires and Scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Near East’; Chapter III,  Eleonora Sasso, ‘aja’ib, mutalibun, and hur al-ayan: Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the Arabian Nights’; Chapter IV, Andrea Mariani, ‘The Use of Contradictions in John La Farge’s Prismatic Syncretism’; Chapter V, Elisa Bizzotto, ‘ “Strange webs with Eastern merchants”: The Orient of Aesthetic Poetry’; Chapter VI, Miriam Sette, ‘Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast and the Elusive Monkey’; Chapter VII, Christopher Ainslie Cowell, ‘Borrowed Verses: Code and Representation Within the First Travelogue of the City of Hong Kong, 1841-2’; Chapter VIII, Ben Cocking, ‘Newby and Thesiger: Humour and Lament in the Hindu Kush’; Chapter IX, Fabrizio Impellizzeri, ‘The Exoticism of Téchiné’s Les Sœurs Brontë: The Dream of an Impossible Elsewhere’; Bibliography; Index.

‘This collection of thoughtful and original essays refi nes the way we think about Orientalism, demonstrating how late Victorian writers and artists virtually internalised the imperial project. In these essays, the political is the personal, the public is the private and aesthetic pleasure is not innocent.’ —John M. Ganim, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, USA, and Author of Medievalism and Orientalism