Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation

Joey S. Kim (she/her) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. She researches global Anglophone literature with a focus on 18th- and 19th-century poetics and aesthetics. She has published work in Essays in Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Journal, Keats-Shelley Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, American Periodicals, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. A poet as well as a literary critic, her award-winning first book of poems, Body Facts, was released in 2021.www.joeyskim.comTwitter: @joeykim

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction. Romanticism, Orientalism, Orientation1. Situating the "Orient" in British Romantic Poetry2. Byron’s Cosmopolitan "East" 3. The Racialized Poetess 4. Disorienting Romanticism: William Blake’s Orientalist Poetics Conclusion Works Cited Index

With Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Joey S. Kim reminds us that we can’t begin to understand the Romantics without attending to their eastward gaze, and that the critique of Orientalism is as urgent now as it was in Edward Said’s day.