Radical Orientalism : rights, reform, and romanticism / Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud.

Call Number	820.9/3585
Author	Cohen-Vrignaud, Gerard, author.
Title	Radical Orientalism : rights, reform, and romanticism / Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud.
Physical Description	1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 111
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction : radical Orientalism and the rights of man -- Cruel and unusual romance : Beckford, Byron, and the abomination of violence -- Reading the Oriental riot act : petition, assembly, and Shelley's constitutional sublime -- Splendors and miseries of the British sultanate : economic Orientalism, inequality, and radical satire -- Reasoning like a Turk : indolence and fatalism in Sardanapalus and The last man -- Byronic infidelity and despotic individuality : sex, religion, and free agency.
Summary	This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey, North Africa and Mughal India when attacking and seeking to change their government's domestic policies. Examining a broad archive ranging from satires, journalism, tracts, political and economic treatises, and public speeches, to the exotic poetry and fictions of canonical Romanticism, Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud shows that promoting colonization was not Orientalism's sole ideological function. Equally vital was its aesthetic and rhetorical capacity to alienate the people's affection from their rulers and fuel popular opposition to regressive taxation, penal cruelty, police repression, and sexual regulation.
Subject	ORIENTALISM. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Romanticism Great Britain.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316275009

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Summary	This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey, North Africa and Mughal India when attacking and seeking to change their government's domestic policies. Examining a broad archive ranging from satires, journalism, tracts, political and economic treatises, and public speeches, to the exotic poetry and fictions of canonical Romanticism, Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud shows that promoting colonization was not Orientalism's sole ideological function. Equally vital was its aesthetic and rhetorical capacity to alienate the people's affection from their rulers and fuel popular opposition to regressive taxation, penal cruelty, police repression, and sexual regulation.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction : radical Orientalism and the rights of man -- Cruel and unusual romance : Beckford, Byron, and the abomination of violence -- Reading the Oriental riot act : petition, assembly, and Shelley's constitutional sublime -- Splendors and miseries of the British sultanate : economic Orientalism, inequality, and radical satire -- Reasoning like a Turk : indolence and fatalism in Sardanapalus and The last man -- Byronic infidelity and despotic individuality : sex, religion, and free agency.
Subject	ORIENTALISM. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Romanticism Great Britain.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316275009