Islam and romantic orientalism: literary encounters with the orient
Auteur :
Sharafuddin, Mohammed
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN :
9781860640261
Date de publication :
31 déc. 1996
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Did European writers and scholars create an image of the Islamic world as a place of tyrrany, unreason and immorality, destined to be subjected to and exploited by the civilized West? This work looks at some of the main literary texts of the Romantic movement in order to explore this question.