Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism

Radical Orientalism: Rights, Reform, and Romanticism

Author
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Year
2015
Page
276
ISBN
1107110327,9781107110328
File Type
pdf
File Size
6.1 MiB

This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey, North Africa and Mughal India when attacking and seeking to change their government's domestic policies. Examining a broad archive ranging from satires, journalism, tracts, political and economic treatises, and public speeches, to the exotic poetry and fictions of canonical Romanticism, Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud shows that promoting colonization was not Orientalism's sole ideological function. Equally vital was its aesthetic and rhetorical capacity to alienate the people's affection from their rulers and fuel popular opposition to regressive taxation, penal cruelty, police repression, and sexual regulation.

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