Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient: Other Encounters
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Part 2 -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Terms
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Kalamazoo, MI
Medieval Institute Publications
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
32 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Orientalism (Cultural sciences)
/ Travel literature
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| Further subjects: | B
Orientalism in literature
B Travelers' writings, English 19th century History and criticism B Muslims in literature B Medieval / HISTORY B Travel Narratives B Historical Narratives B Orientalism B Travelers' writings, English 20th century History and criticism B English fiction 20th century History and criticism B Saracens |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781501517914 |
| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Part 2 -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Terms Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters." |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1501513362 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781501513367 |