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Title

Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient : cultural negotiations / edited by David Vallins, Kaz Oishi and Seamus Perry.

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Vallins, David
• Oishi, Kaz
• Perry, Seamus

Description

xiii, 227 pages; 24 cm

Summary

While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the Orient in both his literary and philosophical writings. Bringing together leading international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the first substantial exploration of Coleridge's literary and scholarly representations of the east and the ways in which these were influenced by and went on to influence his own work and the orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly. Bringing together postcolonial, philosophical, historicist and literary-critical perspectives, this groundbreaking book develops a new understanding of 'Orientalism' that recognises the importance of colonial ideologies in Romantic representations of the East as well as appreciating the unique forms of meaning and value which authors such as Coleridge associated with the Orient. -- from back cover.

Subject

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 > Orient
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 > Criticism and interpretation
• Romanticism > England

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / David Vallins -- Part One: Coleridge, Romanticism and Oriental cultures -- 'Bid him bow down to that which is above him': The 'kowtow controversy' and representations of Asian ceremonials in Romantic literature / Peter J. Kitson -- The 'dark tide of time': Coleridge and William Hodges' India / Deirdre Coleman -- Coleridge's sequel to Thalaba and Robert Southey's prequel to Christabel / Tim Fulford -- Coleridge, William Empson and Japan / Seamus Perry -- Oriental aesthetes and modernity: The reception of Coleridge in early Twentieth-century Japan / Kaz Oishi -- Part Two: Colridge, philosophy, and the Orient -- Coleridge, Orient, Philosophy / Andrew Warren -- Immanence and transcendence in Coleridge's Orient / David Vallins -- 'The one life within us and abroad': Coleridge and Hinduism / Natalie Tal Harries -- On artistic disinterestedness: Coleridge, Schopenhauer and Japanese esoteric buddhism compared / Setsuko Wake-Naota -- Part Three: 'Kubla Khan' and Romantic Orientalism -- The integral significance of the 1816 preface to 'Kubla Khan' / Heidi Thomson -- The mathematics of dreams: The psychological infinity of the East and geometric structures in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' / Dometa Wiegand Brothers -- 'Kubla Khan' and British Chinoiserie: The geopolitics of the Chinese garden / Kuri Katsuyama.

ISBN

• 9781441149879 (hardcover)
• 9781441121349 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781441195050 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013007977

OCLC

• 835951207
• SCSB-11563582

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library