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Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism
出版社： Cambridge University Press
書林書號：
30246140
作者：
Cohen-vrignaud, Gerard
定價：
1050
會員價：
$998
ISBN：
9781107527041
出版年份：
2017
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey, North Africa and Mughal India when attacking and seeking to change their government's domestic policies. Examining a broad archive ranging from satires, journalism, tracts, political and economic treatises, and public speeches, to the exotic poetry and fictions of canonical Romanticism, Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud shows that promoting colonization was not Orientalism's sole ideological function. Equally vital was its aesthetic and rhetorical capacity to alienate the people's affection from their rulers and fuel popular opposition to regressive taxation, penal cruelty, police repression, and sexual regulation.
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