Index

Abrams, M.H. 2, 101–2, 106, 157n.3

Addison, Joseph 48

aestheticism 6, 155

Africa 40, 81, 85, 110, 118

Algeria 7n.21, 59n.l3, 126n.62

allegory 14, 35, 52–3, 54, 82

annotation 41–5, 141

arabesque 6, 50–53, 60, 64, 65, 82, 83n.81, 89n.98, 97, 160n.l0, 170, 198

Arabia 33–8, 42, 62, 84, 104, 105, 107, 115, 123, 165

Arabian Nights; see Thousand and One Nights

“Arabian Tale;” see “oriental tale”

archetype, character or setting as 35–6, 38, 58, 93–4, 107, 125, 167

architecture 7, 40n.83, 43n.91, 121n.53, 140, 146, 151, 155, 160–61, 165, 167, 169–71, 173, 174, 191

Aristotle 11, 48, 55, 101

Armstrong, Isobel2, 142n.89, 190n.61,191

Arnold, Matthew 136, 142, 152, 201

1. and nature 9, 101, 141, 151, 153

2. Works

   1. “In Harmony with Nature” 142–7, 148, 149

   2. “A Persian Passion Play” 142n.89

   3. “The Sick King in Bokhara” 142, 144–7, 148, 149, 161n.l2

art 3, 10, 59, 73, 153, 155, 167, 176–7, 180, 186, 197, 200

1. as affiliated with Orient 156–7, 160–61, 163, 168–71, 173–5, 177–8, 181–4, 189–91, 201

art for art’s sake 2, 6, 10, 69, 119, 155, 170–71, 191, 195, 199, 201

Asia 56, 65–7, 128

Austen, Jane 109

avant-garde, literary 2, 6, 8–9, 154, 169

Baghdad 5, 151, 166, 181n.43, 183, 188

Barthes, Roland 51n. 126, 89, 195n.73

Basra 150–51

Baudelaire, Charles 66n.29, 85n.87, 95n.l01, 129n.68

Beer, John 83, 84, 104n.l5

Behdad, Ali 8

Bewell, Alan 105–6, 108n.28

Bhabha, Homi 65

Bibliothèque orientale; see Barthélemy d’Herbelot

Bongie, Chris 7

Brantlinger, Patrick 7

Bruce, James 110–12, 113, 138, 139

Bukhara 145–6

Butler, Marilyn 15, 29n.61, 35, 43n.94, 52n.l31, 103, 107

Byron, George Gordon 55, 89, 96, 104, 152, 171n.29

1. and nature 9, 142, 146, 151

2. Works

   1. The Bride of Abydos 136–8, 140, 157n.4

   2. The Corsair 136, 138–40

   3. Don Juan 9, 55, 74–9, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86–7, 89n.97, 90–92, 94, 100

   4. The Giaour 84n.84, 136, 138–41

   5. “Turkish Tales” 76, 136, 139, 140, 141, 146

Çelik, Zeynep 7, 169n.24

Chénier, Louis de 37, 43

Chételat, E.J. 70–75, 101, 102, 154

China 56

Christianity 22–4, 25n.51, 92, 142n.89, 161n.l4

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 58n.l2, 84, 95n.l01, 104, 186, 187, 188n.56

colonialism 6, 17n.26, 29, 43n.91, 54, 63n.24

Constantinople 14, 15, 18, 24, 76, 140

Cooper, Barbara 70, 79

Critical Review 45

Daniel, Norman 6, 25n.49, 109

decoration; see ornament

Derrida, Jacques 44, 49n.120, 51n. 126, 160

desert 9, 26, 31, 33–6, 42–3, 68, 84, 103n.10, 104–6, 108, 110, 111–12, 113n.43, 115, 119–20, 122–4, 126–37, 140, 146, 157n.6, 182, 188, 193, 201

de Quincey, Thomas 55n.2, 95n.l01

didacticism 9, 12, 13, 25–32, 35, 38, 46, 53

digression, narrative 77–8, 81, 84, 86, 90

disorder, as stereotype of Orient 43, 63–4, 76–8

dream 25, 26, 60, 63, 65–8, 93–5, 96, 121–5, 179, 198; see also fantasy

Edgeworth, Maria 27

Edinburgh Review 45, 46

Egypt 56, 110, 115, 117, 126n.62, 128, 168n.22, 197n.77, 199–200

exoticism 2, 3, 16, 26n.55, 33, 35, 42, 53, 62, 76, 88, 104, 105, 107, 115n.45, 118, 119, 126, 191, 200, 201

experimentation, poetic 2, 10, 13, 27, 52, 59, 60, 65, 74, 85, 100, 101, 121, 152, 154, 201

fantasy 1, 5, 9, 49, 58–60, 62, 64–6, 68–9, 87, 92, 94–6, 99–100, 164–7, 169, 183–6, 190, 192, 193n.69, 196

Ferriss, Suzanne 75, 77, 78, 82n.75

Flaubert, Gustave 42n.90, 126, 168n.23, 195n.73

Fletcher, Pauline 151–2, 187n.54

Foucault, Michel 6

fragment, as literary device 82–4, 87, 88, 141, 168n.23

French Revolution 13–15

Fry, Paul 103, 112

Galland, Antoine 4, 95

Gautier, Théophile 137, 147, 152, 201

1. and art 2, 10, 155, 180, 197

2. and nature 9, 101, 142, 153

3. Works

   1. “L’Art” 6, 196–8, 201

   2. “La Caravane” 126–30, 131, 132

   3. “Ce que disent les hirondelles” 1

   4. Émaux et camées 192, 195, 196

   5. “La Fellah” 1, 196

   6. “In deserto” 130–6, 140, 179

   7. “Nostalgies d’obélisques” 196

   8. “Le Poème de la femme” 196

   9. “Préface” 192–6, 198

   10. Roman de la momie 128

   11. “Les Souhaits” 161n.12, 164–71, 173, 174, 176, 186, 200, 201

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 192–5, 198

Gordon, Rae Beth 46, 52, 83n.81, 121n.53, 170, 184n.47

Greece 14, 18, 19n.35, 20, 40, 58, 72, 73, 81, 85

Hâfiz 83, 194, 198

Hârûnal-Rashîd 181, 182–3, 185, 186, 188

Hazlitt, William 12, 48

Heffernan, James 102, 105n.l6, 105n.l8

hellenism 56

Hemans, Felicia 10, 113, 125, 152, 155, 178, 201

1. and nature 9, 101, 124, 127, 136, 137, 138, 142

2. Works

   1. “An Hour of Romance” 6, 178–81, 185, 186

   2. Lays of Many Lands 109

   3. “The Mourner for the Barmecides” 178, 180–83

   4. Records of Woman 109

   5. “The Traveller at the Source of the Nile” 110–12, 127, 138, 139, 151

Herbelot, Barthélémy d’ 88, 99

Horace 11, 12, 27, 32

Hugo, Victor 2, 55, 80, 84, 86, 89, 91, 99, 100, 118, 124–5, 127, 135, 201

1. and mimesis 6, 55, 84, 87, 98, 101

2. Works

   1. “Adieux de l’hàtesse arabe” 60, 62–5, 69, 71, 73, 78, 82

   2. “La Douleur du pacha” 59–62, 63, 64, 65, 69, 119, 132n.72

   3. Hernâni 70, 79

   4. “Novembre” 6, 59–60, 65–9, 79, 112, 163, 190, 195

   5. Les Orientales 9, 55–9, 61, 65, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 85, 92, 99, 102, 118, 125, 192, 195

   6. “Les Têtes du sérail” 1

illustrations 114–8

imagination 48, 56, 59, 61, 64, 69, 75, 83, 84, 92–3, 99, 125, 141n.88, 164, 167, 168, 171, 180, 183, 191, 198

imperialism 3, 8, 17, 111, 142n.89, 165, 190n.62, 193n.69, 199n.79

India 4, 40, 99n.l05, 108n.29, 109, 115n.46, 166

Iran 144n.93, 151n.105, 173n.34; see also Persia

Islam 3, 17n.28, 18, 22–5, 33n.74, 39, 58n.11, 88, 121, 123–5, 144, 146, 169, 172, 189, 194

Italy 40, 72, 165

Jeffrey, Francis 43n.94, 46, 47, 51

Jerusalem 121, 123

Johnson, Samuel 11, 12, 27, 48

Jones, William 3, 83, 154n.114, 172n.32

Koran; see Qur’an

Landor, Walter Savage 6, 10, 155, 178, 180, 186, 201

1. Works

   1. Gebir 17n.28, 31, 173n.33

   2. “The Nightingale and Rose” 171–5, 177, 185

Lane, Edward 4n.11, 36n.78, 172n.32

Leask, Nigel 8, 17

Leconte de Lisle, Charles 118, 147, 152, 201

1. and art 10, 155, 157–8, 180

2. and nature 9, 101, 135, 142, 153

3. Works

   1. “Le Désert” 119–25, 126, 127, 129, 131, 132, 163

   2. “L’Orient” 6, 158–64, 176, 184n.46

   3. “Le Palmier” 160n.11

   4. Poèmes barbares 118

Levant 40n.84, 123, 158, 161n.14, 163n.15, 178, 189

literary convention 2, 6, 9, 10, 59, 61, 76, 79, 85, 93, 97–100, 176, 179, 184, 191, 198, 200

local color, as literary device 34, 58, 59, 86, 89, 99, 119

Lowe, Lisa 8, 21n.39, 25, 44n.100, 51n.126, 54, 61, 63n.24, 168n.23, 195n.73

McFarland, Thomas 83n.79, 84, 93, 102n.5, 105, 106, 120

MacKenzie, John 7

Makdisi, Saree 8, 17n.26, 64, 101, 108n.29, 113, 140, 141n.88, 157, 160

Mecca 123

meter, poetic 45, 50–52, 97, 193

mimesis 5, 10, 47–9, 53, 55, 59–61, 69, 72, 75–6, 79, 84, 87, 91–2, 95, 96, 102, 115, 149, 152, 201; see also representation, literary

1. destabilization of 6, 9, 12, 51–3, 64–5, 74, 78, 81–2, 83, 85, 89–90, 93, 94, 100, 125, 128, 130–31, 133, 136, 141, 154, 155, 169, 170–71, 178, 201

2. and Orient 3, 4, 58, 66, 70, 118, 125, 141, 152, 153, 154n.114, 155, 191, 195

Mitchell, Timothy 7, 76, 174n.35

modernity 8, 101, 112, 125, 135

Mohammed; see Muhammad

Monthly Review 45, 46, 47

Moore, Thomas 10, 104, 155, 180, 128n.67, 178, 201

1. Works

   1. “Beauty and Song” 6, 171, 175–7, 185

   2. Lalla Rookh 115, 117, 118, 175n.39, 178n.41

      1. illustration for 115, 116–18

Moses 133–4, 135

Mu’allaqât 30n.69, 83, 147n.99

Muhammad 67, 121, 123

Musset, Alfred de 6, 9, 55, 84, 201

1. Works

   1. A quoi rêvent les jeunes filles 80

   2. Lorenzaccio 79

   3. “Namouna” 9, 55, 70, 76, 79–100

Naddaff, Sandra 51

nature 3, 8, 9, 52, 71, 72, 74, 75, 80, 102–5, 115, 145, 152, 168, 175–8, 186–7

1. displacement of 101, 124, 129–30, 132, 134, 135, 136, 141, 152, 157, 160, 173–4, 176–7, 179, 180, 184, 188, 195, 199, 200–201

2. imitation of; see mimesis

3. Orient as unnatural 10, 21, 101, 103, 106–8, 111–13, 117–21, 123–4, 128, 132, 135–8, 140–41, 146, 147, 151, 152, 154, 155–6, 169–70, 184, 201

4. relation with humans 106–9, 111–12, 120–21, 123, 127, 129, 135, 136, 137–44, 146–8, 150–52, 182, 201

5. and supernatural 42, 48, 49, 72

neoclassicism 9, 48, 50, 51, 55, 59, 65, 69, 70, 72–5, 79, 85, 154n.114, 174, 199

Nerval, Gerard de 126

Nizâmî 193, 198

Norway 165, 168

Nubia 60, 61, 165, 168

Oilier, Charles 23

order, as stereotype 79, 90, 190; see also disorder

“oriental tale” 26, 28, 30, 46–7, 50, 52, 53, 76, 85, 86, 98

orientalist poetics 2, 8, 10, 12, 60, 69, 152, 169, 201

ornament, as orientalist motif 40, 41, 50–53, 64, 83n.81, 153, 157, 160–61, 170–71, 184, 198

Palestine 178

Paris 65–8, 192, 195

Parnassianism 6, 118, 119, 125, 155

Peacock, Thomas Love 103, 154

Persia 4, 40, 42, 51, 58, 142n.89, 154n.114, 171, 172, 174, 175, 177, 186, 193

Plato 101

plot, literary 10, 46, 47, 86

Pococke, Edward 37

Poland 40, 42

Portugal 30, 40, 42

Qur’an28, 33, 57, 123n.56, 193

Racine, Jean 70–71, 73

repetition, textual 26, 41, 43, 51–2, 82, 87, 94, 186

representation, literary 3, 5, 9, 47–55, 58–61, 64–6, 68–9, 74–6, 78–9, 81–5, 87–9, 91–100, 128, 141, 152, 154, 155, 195, 201; see also mimesis

Reynolds, Joshua 11–12

Richardson, Alan 27, 28, 76

Riffaterre, Michael 130, 131, 133, 136

Rodinson, Máxime 7

romanticism 6, 8, 16, 17n.28, 55, 58n.11, 70, 72, 81–2, 83, 84, 88, 89, 99n.105, 101, 106–7, 108, 112, 113, 118, 119, 121, 125, 129–30, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 143, 146, 147, 149, 151, 152, 153, 155, 174–5, 176, 177, 178, 187, 191

Rossetti, William Michael 26–7

rural environment 9, 102, 106–7, 120, 136, 139–40, 147, 159

Saglia, Diego 41n.87, 44, 51, 52n.130, 76n.55, 141

Said, Edward 2, 5n.17, 6–8, 16, 18n.30, 28n.59, 36n.78, 42n.90, 50, 54, 65, 83n.76, 87, 100, 174n.35

Schlegel, Friedrich 50

Schwab, Raymond 2, 6, 56n.4, 63n.24, 113, 119n.50, 192n.68

Scotland 110–11, 138, 139, 151

Scott, Walter 12, 104, 178, 180

sexism 21, 24–5

Seyhan, Azade 16, 35, 52, 81–2, 83, 87, 88, 89, 96, 99n.105

Shakespeare, William 193–4, 198

Sharafuddin, Mohammed 8, 17n.28, 33n.74, 36n.78, 42n.88, 113n.43, 141n.88

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 2, 13, 21, 25, 28, 55, 100, 105, 201

1. Works

   1. A Defence of Poetry 12, 32, 49

   2. Hellas 18, 19n.35, 23n.42, 26n.55

   3. “The Lady of the South” 1

   4. Laon and Cythna 23–4; see The Revolt of Islam

   5. “Ozymandias” 17, 105n.19, 197n.77

   6. The Revolt of Islam 9, 12–30, 32, 52–4, 63, 100, 105, 146

Sidney, Philip 11, 12, 48

slavery 17–21, 24–5, 76, 81

Southey, Robert 55, 75, 80n.65, 92, 104, 113, 172n.32, 186, 201

1. and poetry as information 2, 29–30, 32, 33, 42, 61; see also didacticism

2. Works

   1. The Curse of Kehama 12, 50

   2. Roderick, the Last of the Goths 44, 141

   3. Thalaba the Destroyer 6, 9, 12, 28–54, 61, 64, 82, 93, 97, 104, 113, 115, 117, 118, 178n.41

      1. illustration for 114, 115, 117–8

Spain 57–9, 73, 74, 76, 81, 85, 126n.62, 130n.69, 134, 153

stereotype 16, 26, 35, 34n.75, 43, 62–3, 65, 66n.29, 68, 100, 120, 135, 153n.110, 155, 159, 165, 179, 183, 185, 188, 194, 200

supernatural, the 46, 49, 61, 72, 104, 113, 121, 123, 135, 157, 168, 170, 179, 201; see also nature

Syria 119, 123, 124, 179, 180, 184

Taylor, William 45, 47

Tennyson, Alfred 136, 152, 171n.29, 178, 201

1. and art 2, 6, 10, 155, 186, 188

2. and nature 9, 101, 147, 153, 188

3. Works

   1. Idylls of the King 152

   2. ‘On a Mourner” 148–50

   3. “The Palace of Art” 187–92, 201

   4. “Persia” 1, 151n.105

   5. “Recollections of the Arabian Nights” 183–7, 188, 191, 201

   6. “Written by an Exile of Bassorah, while sailing down the Euphrates” 147, 149–52

Thackeray, William 169

Thousand and One Nights 3, 4–5, 26–7, 30, 32–3, 42n.89, 44, 60, 83, 85, 86, 95, 96, 98, 151, 173n.33, 174n.36, 181n.43, 182, 183–6

timelessness, as stereotype of Orient 16–17, 26, 62–5, 172, 182, 184, 185, 200

Turkey 14, 16, 18, 19n.35, 20, 21, 25n.49, 51, 58, 73, 76, 78, 126n.62, 128, 154n.114, 166

Turner, Brian S. 7

tyranny 17–26, 29

1. religion as 21–2, 24–5

urban environment 136, 146–7, 151

verisimilitude 5, 26, 130

Volney, Constantin-François 37, 39, 105n.19

Wilde, Oscar 2, 153–5, 171n.29, 173, 201

1. and art 6, 10, 153–4

2. Works

   1. “Athanasia” 199–200

   2. “The Decay of Lying” 2, 153, 200, 201

Wollstonecraft, Mary 25, 30n.69

Wordsworth, William 104–6, 113, 125, 152, 201

1. and art 10, 149, 155, 157, 180

2. and nature 2, 6, 9, 101, 102–9, 112, 120–21, 124, 127, 129, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140–42, 149, 158, 159–60, 169n.25, 176, 177, 199

3. Works

   1. “The Haunted Tree” 155–7, 160–61, 184n.46

   2. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” 132

   3. “Mary Barker’s Lines Addressed to a Noble Lord” 1

   4. “A Poet! He hath put his heart to school” 157n.3

   5. Preface, Lyrical Ballads 9n.25

   6. The Prelude 84, 104, 105, 157n.6, 189n.59

   7. “Ruth” 105, 107

   8. “Septimi Gades” 6, 104, 105, 107–9, 111, 112, 120, 124, 127, 131, 139, 147, 149, 151, 194

   9. “The Solitary Reaper” 104, 105

Yegenoglu, Meyda 7