Interrogating Orientalism Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices / edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass. - 1 online resource (vi, 277 p.) : ill., maps ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index.

Introduction : mapping orientalism : representations and pedagogies / Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass -- Interrogating orientalism : theories and practices / Jeffrey Cass -- The female captivity narrative : blood, water, and orientalism / Diane Long Hoeveler -- "Better than the reality" : the Egyptian market in nineteenth-century travel writing / Emily A. Haddad -- Colonial counterflow : from orientalism to Buddhism / Mark Lussier -- Homoerotics and orientalism in William Beckford's Vathek: liberalism and the problem of pederasty / Jeffrey Cass -- Orientalism in Disraeli's Alroy / Sheila A. Spector -- Teaching the quintessential Turkish tale : Montagu's Turkish embassy letters / Jeanne Dubino -- Representing India in drawing-room and classroom : or, Miss Owenson and "those gay gentlemen, Brahma, Vishnu, and Co." / Michael J. Franklin -- "Unlettered tartars" and "torpid barbarians" : teaching the figure of the Turk in Shelley and De Quincey / Filiz Turhan -- "Boundless thoughts and free souls" : teaching Byron's Sardanapalus, Lara, and The corsair / G. Todd Davis -- Byron's The giaour : teaching orientalism in the wake of September 11 / Alan Richardson -- Teaching nineteenth-century orientalist entertainments / Edward Ziter.

Open Access

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Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.--Orient
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Orientalism--Study and teaching.
Orientalism in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century


Orient--In literature.


Electronic books.

PR468.O74 / I58 2006

820.9/325