Orientalism in the Romantic Era

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.