Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 457 p)
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Series Statement:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 366
Content:
Jane Austen (1775-1817) -- Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933) -- Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) -- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) -- Charles M. Doughty (1843-1926) -- Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) -- George Eliot (1819-1880) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) -- Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (1801-1888) -- Eugene Fromentin (1820-1876) -- Antoine Galland (1646-1715) -- Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) -- H. A. R. Gibb (1895-1971) -- Ignac Goldziher (1850-1921) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- David George Hogarth (1862-1927) -- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) -- Ibn Warraq (1946- ) -- Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) -- Edward William Lane (1801-1876) -- T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) -- Bernard Lewis (1916- ) -- Louis Massignon (1883-1962) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) -- Azar Nafisi (1955- ) --Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) -- Eca de Queiros (1845-1900) -- Ernest Renan (1823-1892) -- Ettore Rossi (1894-1955) -- A. I. Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838) -- Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) --William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) -- Bayard Taylor (1823-1878) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) -- W. Montgomery Watt (1909-2006) -- Appendices: Orientalism in art -- Orientalism in music -- German Orientalism -- Eastern European Orientalisms.
Content:
This volume provides background material for the debate initiated by the publication of the late Edward W. Said's Orientalism (1978), in which Said contended that the scholarly study of Eastern society is not value-neutral
Note:
Description based on print version record
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"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
9780787681845
Additional Edition:
0787681849
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale Literature Resource Center
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