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In this dissertation, I study the Eastern influences on the music of the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), in particular, the composer’s masterpiece, Gaspard de la nuit (1908). This piano composition consists of three movements, “Ondine,” “Le Gibet,” and “Scarbo,” each …

This study examines the contents and the role of the Restoration and eighteenth-century serious dramas that stage the Orient, namely the Muslim Orient. Critics have analyzed the rise and the role of these dramas differently. For instance, Edward Said in Orientalism views Orienta…

In the nineteenth century, foreign travel became much easier than it had ever been before. Improvements in the means of transportation enabled travelers to cover greater distances. The changing economics of travel made traveling accessible to a greater number of people. At the s…

This dissertation examines the ways in which the eighteenth and early nineteenth century British encounter with the Orient redefined literary representations of difference. The Orientalist renaissance which took place from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries wa…