Radical Orientalism : Rights, Reform, and Romanticism

Name: Radical Orientalism
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107110328
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ISBN: 9781107110328

by Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

ISBN-10 1107110327

ISBN-13 9781107110328

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 30th, 2015

Print length 280 Pages

Weight 580 grams

Dimensions 24.10 x 16.00 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Colonialism & imperialism International relations Colonialism and imperialism

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This fascinating study explores why ideas of the East mattered to Romantic writers, including Byron and the Shelleys, as well as their readers, political reformers and working-class activists. Imagining and invoking the Muslim world helped radicals to formulate their opposition to electoral disenfranchisement, police repression, and economic exploitation in Britain.

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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