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Orientalism in the Romantic Era
Author(s) -
Taylor Susan
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00075.x
Subject(s) - orientalism , romanticism , romance , fantasy , utopia , metaphor , literature , history , aesthetics , psychology , art , philosophy , art history , linguistics
British Romantic literature is interfused with the era's orientalism – the many contradictory ways self‐termed Western cultures view so‐called Eastern cultures as Other, as utopia, as exotic fantasy, as metaphor, and as source of land, labor, and material goods, to name a few. In the last 20 years, scholars of British Romanticism have questioned overly reductive interpretations of East/West constructs in this period.