Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism

Eleonora Sasso is a Lecturer in English with the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara. She is the author of Victorian Dominatrices: Women of Arcane Power in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Arachne Publishing, 2012), How the Writings of William Morris Shaped the Literary Style of Tennyson, Swinburne, Gissing, and Yeats (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011) and William Morris Between Utopia and Medievalism (Arachne, 2007).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. ‘[S]elling old lamps for new ones’: D. G. Rossetti’s Restructuring of Oriental Schemas2. Toward a Corporeal Orientalism: Foregrounding Arabian Erotic Figures in Algernon Swinburne and Aubrey Beardsley3. The Cognitive Process of Parable: John Ruskin,William Morris and the Oriental Lure of the Forbidden 4. Consumers of Intoxicating Fruits and Elixirs: The Cognitive Grammar of Christina Rossetti’s and Ford Madox Ford’s Oriental Fairy Tales Appendix BibliographyIndex

In her theoretically alert and aesthetically responsive study, Eleonora Sasso writes compellingly about the Pre-Raphaelites' use of Orientalism. Strikingly independent in its insights, the book suggests how important Eastern culture was for the Pre-Raphaelites. New perceptions abound on every stylishly written page of this fine book.