Ottomania : the romantics and the myth of the Islamic Orient
Publisher description: Exploring the nineteenth-century European Romantic obsession with the Orient, Roderick Cavaliero brings on a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including Beckford, Byron and Shelley. Cavaliero analyses the Romantic vision of the Orient fr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2013
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| Series: | Library of Ottoman studies ;
; 24 |
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| Summary: | Publisher description: Exploring the nineteenth-century European Romantic obsession with the Orient, Roderick Cavaliero brings on a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including Beckford, Byron and Shelley. Cavaliero analyses the Romantic vision of the Orient from Ottoman Turkey, through the Middle East, to the Vale of Kashmir - revealing a fascination with the exotic sights, sounds and mythology of the Orient mixed with distaste for cruelty, oppression and despotic rule. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 252 σ.; εικ.; 23 εκ. |
| Bibliography: | Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές (σ. 235-239) και ευρετήριο |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78076-482-5 |