Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms.

Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexual...

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Main Author: Lowe, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:150172312X
9781501723124
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Critical Terrains; Contents; Preface; 1 Discourse and Heterogeneity: Situating Orientalism; 2 Travel Narratives and Orientalism: Montagu and Montesquieu; 3 Orient as Woman, Orientalism as Sentimentalism: Flaubert; 4 Orientalism as Literary Criticism: The Reception of E.M. Forster's Passage to India; 5 The Desires of Postcolonial Orientalism: Chinese Utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel; Conclusion: Orientalism Interrupted; Works Cited; Index.