Belated Travelers

Behdad, Ali

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“…Indeed, "discovery" is one of the key tropes of these works, along with praise for the Bedouin and implicit or explicit criticism of West ern materialism and degeneration, as well as disguise and the "textual attitude." Like Ed 275 The texts fre quently reveal the "textual attitude"; for example, when Lady Anne Blunt specifically counters Palgrave's description of the Nejd desert, she finds it "charming" rather than a "nightmare of impossible horror," as in Palgrave, or "an extreme desolation," as in Doughty. 276 Despite these disagreements about the desert, all four writers see the Bedouin as an example of the Noble Savage.…”

Section: The Middle East/arabia In Victorian Travel Writingmentioning

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Orientalism in the Victorian Era

Kennedy¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

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Orientalism in the Victorian era has origins in three aspects of 18th-century European and British culture: first, the fascination with The Arabian Nights (translated into French by Antoine Galland in 1704), which was one of the first works to have purveyed to Western Europe the image of the Orient as a place of wonders, wealth, mystery, intrigue, romance, and danger; second, the Romantic visions of the Orient as represented in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon, Lord Byron, and other Romantics as well as in Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh; and third, the domestication of opium addiction in Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Victorian Orientalism was all pervasive: it is prominent in fiction by William Thackeray, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling, but is also to be found in works by Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. In poetry Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat is a key text, but many works by Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning also show the influence of Orientalist tropes and ideas. In theater it is one of the constant strands of much popular drama and other forms of popular entertainment like panoramas and pageants, while travel writing from Charles Kingsley to Richard Burton, James Anthony Froude, and Mary Kingsley shows a wide variety of types of Orientalist figures and concepts, as do many works of both popular and children’s literature. Underlying and uniting all these diverse manifestations of Victorian Orientalism is the imperialist philosophy articulated by writers as different as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx, supported by writings of anthropologists and race theorists such as James Cowles Pritchard and Robert Knox. Toward the end of the Victorian era, the image of the opium addict and the Chinese opium den in the East End of London or in the Orient itself becomes a prominent trope in fiction by Dickens, Wilde, and Kipling, and can be seen to lead to the proliferation of Oriental villains in popular fiction of the early 20th century by such writers as M. P. Shiel, Guy Boothby, and Sax Rohmer, whose Dr. Fu Manchu becomes the archetypal version of such figures.

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Section: The Middle East/arabia In Victorian Travel Writingmentioning

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Orientalism in the Victorian Era

Kennedy¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

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“…En partant du matériel de promotion du tourisme -guides de voyage, brochures, dépliants -à la valeur historique souvent négligée (Harp, 2002), nous avons élaboré, à la suite d'autres auteurs (Behdad, 1994 ;Koshar, 1998 ;Palmowski, 2002 ;Vidal, 2010), une analyse détaillée de ces documents en tant que partie des dispositifs impériaux, et surtout en tant qu'outils de et pour un projet colonial.…”

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À la périphérie de l'Empire: Constructions et représentations de la Mauritanie sous administration coloniale française / On the periphery of the Empire: Constructions and Representations of Mauritania under French Colonial administration

Lucas

2016

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“…17 ) Ali Behdad has written that belated orientalists -among whom he counts the likes of Nerval and Flaubert -search for a '''counterexperience'' in the Other [which] turns out to be discovery of its loss and the absence of an alternative'. 18 Yet Flaubert seems to extract the greatest significance from his own conflictual feelings of excitement and disappointment, fulfilment and loss, and thus anticipates a certain idea of the exotic, theorised by Victor Segalen, as an aesthetic of diversity. 19 In this aesthetic, exuberant intercultural contrasts invariably succumb to the subtler shades of difference cultivated through art and critical insight, a kind of authorial exertion of control that deviates from imperial norms.…”

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Orientalist divagations: four French authors in Egypt

Sweet¹

2010

Studies in Travel Writing

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Belated Travelers

Cited by 237 publications

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Orientalism in the Victorian Era

Orientalism in the Victorian Era

À la périphérie de l'Empire: Constructions et représentations de la Mauritanie sous administration coloniale française / On the periphery of the Empire: Constructions and Representations of Mauritania under French Colonial administration

Orientalist divagations: four French authors in Egypt

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