Overview
- Extends scholarship of Orientalism
- Highlights the complex ways in which Browning’s poetry challenged the confrontational notions of Eastern and Western culture
- Draws new insights into Robert Browning’s work and nineteenth-century literary culture
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Browning and the Arabesque
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Browning in Arabia
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The Return of the (Repressed) East
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A Moveable East: Rabbis, Sages, and Dervishes
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About this book
Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning’s early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East. This book highlights the complexities of Browning’s poetry, revealing Browning’s resistance to triumphalist and imperialist forms of Orientalism generated by many nineteenth-century British and European literary and scholarly portrayals of the East. Hédi A. Jaouad argues that Browning extensively researched the literature, history, philosophy, and culture of the East to produce poetry that is sensitive to its Eastern resources and devoted to confirming the interrelation of Northern and Eastern knowledge in pursuit of a new form of transcendental humanism.
Reviews
“Jaouad’s book will, however, prove a useful resource to students, scholars, and admirers of Browning’s poetry, and indeed to anyone interested in the manifold networks of cultural affiliation and response evidenced by Victorian literature. Its range of reference and scholarship will undoubtedly lead to the satisfaction of Jaouad’s desire to ‘excite further interest in Browning’s life-long fascination with Eastern religion, culture, and literature’ … .” (Joseph Hankinson, Modern Language Review, Vol. 115 (3), July, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hédi A. Jaouad is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Skidmore College, USA. He is also the author of Limitless Undying Love: The Ballad of John and Yoko & The Brownings (2015), The Brownings’ Shadow at Yaddo (2014), and Browningmania, America’s Love for Robert Browning (2016). He is the editor of Revue CELAAN, a journal dedicated to the promotion of North African literature and art.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Browning Upon Arabia
Book Subtitle: A Moveable East
Authors: Hédi A. Jaouad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92648-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92647-6Published: 11 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06480-8Published: 09 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92648-3Published: 27 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 240
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Middle Eastern Literature