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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam and Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer
Instruction in The Revolt of Islam
Tyranny: the Orient’s chief export
Tyranny’s comrades: religion and sexism
Orientalism and Shelley’s poetics
Morals vs. materials: instruction and pleasure in Thalaba the Destroyer
The desert, Islam: foreignness as a hermeneutic category
Foreignness general and particular: character as archetype
Extremes: too many notes?
Southey and his readers: delighted, informed, or distressed
Representation and the “Arabesque ornament”
2 Representing, misrepresenting, not representing: Victor Hugo’s Les Orientales and Alfred de Musset’s “Namouna”
Hugo’s preface: poetic ideals and the Orient as subject
“La Douleur du pacha”: the Orient as origin or as end
“Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe”: stasis
“Novembre”: returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis
Hugo’s critics: E.J. Chételat
George Gordon Byron’s Don Juan: “But what’s reality?”
“Namouna”: fragmentary representation
No narrative, no representation
Authority, referents, and representation
The Middle East: “impossible à décrire”
3 Orientalist poetics and the nature of the Middle East
William Wordsworth and the nature of the Middle East
Felicia Hemans’s ambivalence
Truth in illustrating Robert Southey and Thomas Moore
Leconte de Lisle: “Le Désert,” “le désert du monde”
Théophile Gautier: the composite desert
“In deserto”: European nature in absentia
Out of the desert: Byron’s “Turkish Tales”
Matthew Arnold in Bukhara: nature in the Middle Eastern city
Alfred Tennyson’s Basra: natural phenomena and urban construction
Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde
4 The Orient’s art, orienting art
A confederation of the Middle East and art: Wordsworth
The Middle East as a source of art: Leconte de Lisle
Middle Eastern art and Gautier’s imagination
Nightingales and roses I: Walter Savage Landor and oriental literature
Nightingales and roses II: Moore and the Orient as an ideal
Hemans’s Middle Eastern models
Grounding a poetics in the 1001 Nights: Tennyson
The Orient and Tennyson’s p(a)lace of art
Gautier’s orientalist poetics and art for art’s sake
Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde: culmination
Bibliography
Index
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