Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu15236593733053532021-08-03T07:06:04Z Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation Kim, Joanne S. Literature Aesthetics Art Criticism Comparative Literature Philosophy Romance Literature Romanticism literature Orientalism postcolonialism nineteenth-century British poetry gender culture orient poetics aesthetics critical theory English “Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation” is a literary study of British Romantic poetry. Looking beyond literary nationalism, I describe a Romantic poetics of orientation, a new mode of poetic writing that linked self-formation to cultural difference through representations of the literary “Orient.” This Orientalist trend was in tension with the Romantic ideal of universal experience. In tracing this shifting orientation in British Romantic literature, I bring together an unlikely transatlantic archive in chapters on Phillis Wheatley, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Felicia Hemans alongside lesser-known Orientalists like Sir William Jones. By rerouting their poetics through representations of the literary “Orient,” these authors positioned themselves aesthetically and geopolitically in the changing terrain of Anglophone culture. This complex orientation adjusted the global frame of reference in many of their imaginative works of self-expression, including Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam and Byron’s Eastern tales. Through the postcolonial genealogy of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, I explain the various deployments of Orientalism in these British Romantic texts. I argue that Romantic poetry about the “Orient” bridged radical particularity and universal connectivity, anticipating postcolonial discourses that resonate in today’s globalized world. 2018-09-11 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523659373305353 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523659373305353 restricted--full text unavailable until 2023-05-07 This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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