Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations (Continuum Literary Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441149872 ISBN 13: 9781441149879

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Synopsis

While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the Orient in both his literary and philsophical writings. Bringing together leading international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the first substantial exploration of Coleridge's literary and scholarly representations of the east and the ways in which these were influenced by and went on to influence his own work and the orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly. Bringing together postcolonial, philsophical, historicist and literary-critical perspectives, this groundbreaking book develops a new understanding of 'Orientalism' that recognises the importance of colonial ideologies in Romantic representations of the East as well as appreciating the unique forms of meaning and value which authors such as Coleridge asscoiated with the Orient.

About this title

Book Description:

Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, this is the first substantial exploration of Coleridge's orientalism and its influence.

About the Author:

David Vallins is Professor of English at the University of Hiroshima, Japan. His previous publications include Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism (Macmillan, 2000).

Kaz Oishi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Seamus Perry is Fellow of Balliol College and Lecturer in English, University of Oxford, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1441149872
• ISBN 13: 9781441149879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Vallins David, Oishi Kaz, Perry Seamus