Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient: Other Encounters

Liliana Sikorska

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2022

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient

Other Encounters

Liliana Sikorska

Volume 32 in the series Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513367

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About this book

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction.

Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."

Author / Editor information

Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

Reviews

"This is an ambitious, engaged and erudite incursion into orientalism and related matters. It will add to critical debate in various fields, ranging from historiography to literary criticism." (Dr. Tabish Khair, novelist, associate professor, Aarhus University)

"This study contributes to research on medievalism in a very original manner: it links the distant past (medieval) with the not-so-distant Orientalism (the nineteenth and early twentieth-century one) and then with present-day culture. Liliana Sikorska writes her book with the intention of re-historicizing the Occident and inscribes her study into the recent debates on political medievalism. Her erudite analysis, complemented with copious references, throws some new light on postmedieval medievalisms that are rarely discussed in the study of medievalism." (Professor Anna Czarnowus, University of Silesia)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XXV
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XXVII
Part 1
Introduction “For so in Travailing in One Country he shall sucke the Experience of many.” Reading the Orient in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives and Historical Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 From Oriental to Orientalist: Contact and Conflict in Culture and Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2 Al-Ifranij among the Believers, or the Victorian Quest Romance(d) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3 Under Western Eyes: The Discourses of/on History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Part 2
Introduction “The dark reservoir of hurt and hate” in Contemporary Literature in English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 4 Dar Al-Hijira, or the World Of Immigration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 5 Arabian (K)nights: On Terrorists and Tyrants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 6 Through the Looking Glass: Ajanabee in Arabia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Index of Names and Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, scholars of Middle Eastern Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 28
- Main content: 235
Keywords: Orientalism; Travel Narratives; Historical Narratives; Saracens

eBook

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9781501513367

Hardcover

Published: November 22, 2021
ISBN: 9781501517914

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9781501521492