The recent turn to political and historical readings of Romanticism
has given us a more complex picture of the institutional, cultural
and sexual politics of the period. There has been a tendency,
however, to confine such study to the European scene. In this book,
Nigel Leask sets out to study the work of Byron, Shelley and De
Quincey (together with a number of other major and minor Romantic
writers, including Robert Southey and Tom Moore) in relation to
Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'. Combining historical
and theoretical approaches with detailed analyses of specific
works, it examines the anxieties and instabilities of Romantic
representations of the Ottoman Empire, India, China and the Far
East. It argues that these anxieties were not marginal but central
to the major concerns of British Romantic writers. The book is
illustrated with a number of engravings from the period, giving a
visual dimension to the discussion of Romantic representations of
the East.
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