Oriental Prospects. Western Literature and the Lure of the East.

Original publisher’s sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: viij, 296pp., 15 contributions, illustrations, footnotes, bibliographical notes, index, notes on contributors, list of illustrations. Contents: The Elizabethians and the Turk at Constantinopel. Sir William Jones and Literary Orientalism. William Beckford’s Symbolic Appropriation of the Oriental Context. English Romantic Poets and the ” Free-Floating Orient “. Walter Scott’s Orient: The Talisman. In search of the Noble Savage: Travellers’ Accounts in Old Indies Government Journals [1816-1830]. The ” Heathen Chinee ” and the ” Yellow Peril ” : Pseudo-Chinoiserie in Popular Fiction. Irish Studies and Orientalism: Ireland and the Orient. Recitatif. The Vulnerabilities of an Honest Broker: Edward Said and the Problems of Theory. The Case of Tel Quel and China. Orientalists Visions and Revisions: Edward Said’s Orientalism and Representations of the Orient in Paul Bowles. Cartographical Revisionism in the New Literatures in English . Post-Colonial Literary Studies: A Neo-Orientalism. Unquiet on the Western Front: The ” Orientalism” of Contemporary Chinese-American Woman Writers. Very fine copy – as new. Volume 22: DQR Studies in Literature.