Late Victorian Orientalism

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A redefinition of the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century using Edward Said’s Orientalism

Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century taking as a starting point Said’s Orientalism in order to investigate the visual, fantasised, and imperialist representations of the East, as well as the most exemplary translations of Oriental poems. The Victorians envisioned the East in many different modes or Orientalisms since as Said suggested ‘[t]here were, perhaps, as many Orientalisms as Orientalists.’ 

 

By combining together Western and Oriental modes of art, this study is not only aimed at filling a gap in Victorian and Oriental studies but also at broadening the audiences it is intended for. Edward FitzGerald, William Bell Scott, the Brontë sisters, William Holman Hunt, D. G. Rossetti, William Morris, John La Farge, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, the anonymous author of the Hongkong and the Hongkonians, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Wilfred Thesiger, and Eric Newby play such a prominent role in the Oriental debate. By offering an extended discussion of their Oriental writings, this book will appeal to and benefit a wider range of audiences.

 

The subject range of this volume of essays on late Victorian Orientalism explores nineteenth-century modes of art which position themselves as instruments of knowledge of the Orient. The contributors deploy variegated tools derived from textual studies and visual culture research in order to explore the many ways in which the late Victorians envisioned the East. It is this combined approach which makes possible the reconsideration of Orientalist literature, art and cinema.

Introduction; Chapter I, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, ‘FitzGerald’s Timelines’; Chapter II,  Florence Boos, ‘Empires and Scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Near East’; Chapter III,  Eleonora Sasso, ‘aja’ib, mutalibun, and hur al-ayan: Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the Arabian Nights’; Chapter IV, Andrea Mariani, ‘The Use of Contradictions in John La Farge’s Prismatic Syncretism’; Chapter V, Elisa Bizzotto, ‘ “Strange webs with Eastern merchants”: The Orient of Aesthetic Poetry’; Chapter VI, Miriam Sette, ‘Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast and the Elusive Monkey’; Chapter VII, Christopher Ainslie Cowell, ‘Borrowed Verses: Code and Representation Within the First Travelogue of the City of Hong Kong, 1841-2’; Chapter VIII, Ben Cocking, ‘Newby and Thesiger: Humour and Lament in the Hindu Kush’; Chapter IX, Fabrizio Impellizzeri, ‘The Exoticism of Téchiné’s Les Sœurs Brontë: The Dream of an Impossible Elsewhere’; Bibliography; Index.

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 30 juin 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781785273292
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Late Victorian Orientalism
Late Victorian Orientalism
Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge
Eleonora Sasso
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CONTENTS
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Eleonora Sasso
Chapter 1. FitzGerald’s timelines
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Chapter 2. Empires and scapegoats: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Near East
Florence S. Boos
Chapter 3. Aja’ib , mutalibun and hur al-ayn : Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne and the Arabian Nights
Eleonora Sasso
Chapter 4. The use of contradictions in John La Farge’s prismatic syncretism
Andrea Mariani
Chapter 5. ‘Strange webs with Eastern merchants’: The Orient of aesthetic poetry
Elisa Bizzotto
Chapter 6. Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast and the elusive monkey
Miriam Sette
Chapter 7. Borrowed verses: Code and representation within the first travelogue of the city of Hong Kong, 1841–42
Christopher Cowell
Chapter 8. Newby and Thesiger: Humour and lament in the Hindu Kush
Ben Cocking
Chapter 9. The exoticism of Téchiné’s Les Sœurs Brontë : The dream of an impossible elsewhere
Fabrizio Impellizzeri
Bibliography
Index
FIGURES
2.1 Map of the Troad
2.2 Lion Gate, Mycenae, c. 1300–1250 BCE
2.3 Holman Hunt, self-portrait, 1867
2.4 John Ballantyne, Portrait of Holman Hunt in His Studio, 1865
2.5 Holman Hunt, The Sphinx in the Vicinity of Gaza , 1854
2.6 Holman Hunt, The Mosque al Ahakra in Jerusalem During Ramadan , 1854–55
2.7 Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat, final version, 1854–55
2.8 Holman Hunt, The Shadow of Death, 1873
2.9 Holman Hunt, The Finding of the Savior in the Temple, 1860
2.10 Lowering the Great Winged Bull, 1849
2.11 Discovery of Gigantic Head, 1849
2.12 Winged Human-headed Lion, 1849
2.13 William Morris at Oxford, 1857
2.14 General Charles George Gordon
3.1 D.G. Rossetti, Golden Water , Princess Parisade, 1858. Fitzwilliam Museum
3.2 D.G. Rossetti, Helen of Troy , 1863. Kunsthalle Hamburg
3.3 Conceptual blending network for The Beloved, or The Bride
3.4 D.G. Rossetti, Astarte Syriaca , 1877. Manchester Art Gallery
3.5 Conceptual blending network for the protagonists of Morris’s Oriental narrative poems
7.1 Detail of the first known survey map of the early colony of Hong Kong: Pottinger’s Map (1842)
7.2 One of the matshed ‘barracks’ erected for the sepoys
7.3 William Alexander, ‘Method of Carrying Heavy Packages’ versus Lieutenant Thomas Bernard Collinson, Study of a 36-Man Bamboo Carrying Cradle in Hong Kong
7.4 Lieutenant Thomas Bernard Collinson, ‘The Interior of Letter G’
7.5 Colesworthy Grant, ‘a native’s bungalow’ adapted for ‘the European resident’
7.6 William Tayler, ‘The Young Civilian’s Toilet’ and ‘The Village Barber’
7.7 Lieutenant Colonel George Phillpotts, Phillpotts’ Survey, East Elevation of Johnston’s House
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Elisa Bizzotto is Associate Professor of English Literature at Iuav University, Venice. Her research interests lie mainly in Victorian, late-Victorian and pre-Modernist literature and culture. She has published books on the imaginary portrait genre (2001), articles in the Pre-Raphaelite magazine Germ (2012, co-authored) and on Walter Pater (2018) and edited or co-edited volumes on Walter Pater (1996), Vernon Lee (2006, 2014), Arthur Symons (2018) and Mario Praz (2019). Bizzotto is currently translating and editing two of Bernard Shaw’s plays into Italian and writing on the influence of Italian oral literature on Vernon Lee. She is a member of the Council of the Doctoral School in History of the Arts of Ca’ Foscari University and one of the founding members of the Italian Oscar Wilde Society. She is an Officer of the International Walter Pater Society and part of the editorial board of the journals English Literature, Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism and Volupté .
Florence S. Boos is a professor of English at the University of Iowa, United States. Her teaching and research interests include Pre-Raphaelite art and literature, working-class literature, the life and work of William Morris, poetry by women, and nineteenth-century social, political and intellectual history, as well as Marxist and feminist approaches to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. The general editor of the William Morris Archive, she has published critical works on the poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, most recently History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1856–1870 (2015). Boos has also published annotated critical editions of Morris’s The Earthly Paradise, The Socialist Diary (2nd ed., 2018) and The Life and Death of Jason and is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to William Morris (2020). Her annotated anthology Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain appeared in 2008 and The Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women: The Hard Way Up in 2017. A former president of the Midwest Victorian Studies Association and the William Morris Society in the United States, she also serves on the advisory boards of Victorian Poetry, Journal of William Morris Studies and Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies .
Ben Cocking is Director of Research in the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. His research interests include travel journalism, travel writing and travel-related media; specifically, representations of the Middle East in news media, Arabist and British post-war travel writing and adventure travel. He has published articles in journals such as Journalism Studies, Journeys: International Journal of Travel Writing and Studies in Travel Writing . Cocking contributed a chapter on representations of Africa in British travel journalism to the edited collection Travel Journalism: Exploring Production, Impact and Culture and recently co-authored Assessing the Delivery of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Public Service Commitments (2019). He is the author of Travel Journalism and Travel Media: Identities, Places and Imaginings (2020).
Christopher Cowell is a trained architect and historian at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, United States. His work examines urban militarism, spatial security, hinterland ecologies and medical and racial theory as a means of questioning the material processes and ideology behind colonialism across northern India in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also written on colonial architecture, malaria and urbanism in Southern China, particularly Hong Kong. Cowell’s work has been published in Modern Asian Studies (2013) and Architecture beyond Europe (2016), among others. He currently lectures at GSAPP, teaching the core survey in architectural history and theory of the (global) nineteenth century.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College, United Kingdom. He is the author of Victorian Afterlives (2002), Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist (2011), which was awarded the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize, and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland , which was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Prize. He has also produced editions of Dickens’s Christmas Stories and Great Expectations , Kingsley’s The Water-Babies and Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor , all for Oxford World’s Classics, and is currently completing editions of The Collected Peter Pan for Oxford University Press and A Tale of Two Cities for Norton. Douglas-Fairhurst writes regularly for publications such as the Guardian, TLS, Times, Spectator, Literary Review and New Statesman . Radio and television appearances include Start the Week, BBC Breakfast and The Culture Show , and he has also acted as the historical consultant on BBC productions of Jane Eyre, Emma, Great Expectations and Dickensian . In 2013 he was a judge of the Man Booker Prize, and in 2015 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Fabrizio Impellizzeri is Associate Professor of French Literature at the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Ragusa at the University of Catania, Italy. He has published on erotic sublimation