Safavid revival in Persian miniature painting / Axel Langer -- Appropriating Damascus rooms / Moya Carey -- Henri Moser as commissioner general of the pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris / Ágnes Sebestyén -- Yakov Smirnov's photo collecti…
"The present volume offers a collection of essays that examine the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of Islamic art,…
Revised version of papers presented at the International Conference: Rereading Orientalism, held at Kolkata in August 2004.
The second half of the nineteenth century was the time of universal expositions in the Western world. Beginning in 1851 in London, the exhibitions, held in many cities of Europe and North America, became, in the words of the historian Eric Hobsbawm, "great new rituals of self-co…
Introduction: The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia -- Framing the Issues / Walter S.H. Lim -- Persia, Tartaria, and Pamphilia: Ideas of Asia in Mary Worth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, Part II / Bernadette Andrea -- Romancing the Turk: Trade, Race,…
Contributors to this collection examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England.
Contributors to this collection examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England
The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia is an important collection of essays that examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England. It posits that the interest in merchant and overseas ventures and fa…
"The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia is an important collection of essays that examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England. It posits that the interest in merchant and overseas ventures and f…
During the decolonization period after World War Second, Edward Said and other scholars identified and fought against Orientalism: the theory and practice of representing the East in Western thought. The aim is to introduce the origins and character of the debate on Orientalism,…
During the decolonization period after World War Second, Edward Said and other scholars identified and fought against Orientalism: the theory and practice of representing the East in Western thought. The aim is to introduce the origins and character of the debate on Orientalism,…
Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the nature of contemporary critiq…
The overarching myth was that of the Ottoman Empire, a huge and exotic superpower, an empire to rival Rome, a major threat to Europe, with an invincible military record ruled by a Sultan with absolute, even feckless, power of life and death over his subjects who lived to ̀delight…
