Radical Orientalism Rights, Reform and Romanticism
- New York Cambridge University Press 2017
- 261p
includes index and biblioraphy
Cruel and Unusual Romance : Beckford, Byron, and the Abomination of Violence ...............24 Reading the Oriental riot Act: Petition, Assembly, and Shelley`s Constitutional Sublime ..............62 Splendors and Miseries of the British sultanate: Economic Orientalism , inequality, and Radical Satire ...............100 Reasoning like a turk: Indolence and Fatalism in Sardanapalus and the last man ............141 Byronic infidelity and Despotic Individuality: Sex, Religion and Free agency ....................178