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The Orient and the Young Romantics
Andrew Warren
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Description for The Orient and the Young Romantics
hardcover. This book explores how the Romantic poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats engages with tales and themes of the Orient. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient ... Read more
Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It argues that they do so not only to interrogate their own imaginations, but also as a way of criticizing Europe's growing imperialism. For them the Orient is a projection of Europe's own fears and desires. It is therefore a charged setting in which to explore and contest the limits of the age's aesthetics, politics and culture. Being nearly always self-conscious and ironic, the poets' treatment of the Orient ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107071902
SKU
V9781107071902
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Ref
99-18
About Andrew Warren
Andrew Warren is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He specializes in Romanticism, poetry, philosophy and critical theory.
Reviews for The Orient and the Young Romantics
'… this book is a compelling critical achievement in part because it is finely wrought, but also because in it Andrew Warren raises questions about the poetry of the second generation that are very much worth raising and discussing … Warren's study offers us real insight and sustained critical pleasures.' Theresa M. Kelley, Studies in Romanticism