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Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient

Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient

Cavaliero, Roderick

Paperback

Series: Library of Ottoman Studies

Turkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 1780764820
ISBN13: 9781780764825
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Apr 30 2013
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient.Cavaliero draws on a life-time's research in Romantic literature and introduces a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including Beckford, Byron, Shelley, Walter Scott, Pierre Loti, Thomas Moore, Rossini, Eugene Delacroix, Thackeray and Disraeli, and a host of other Romantics, who were drawn to the Orient in the 18th and 19th centuries.They luxuriate in its exotic sights, sounds, literature and, above all, in the prevailing mythology.Cavaliero analyses the Romantic vision where, as Byron writes, there are 'virgins soft as the roses they twine', but lays bare an underlying vision of cruelty and oppression, and of societies based on domestic or prisoner slavery - anathema to the 19th-century Romantic. The overarching myth was that of the Ottoman Empire, a huge and exotic superpower, an empire to rival Rome, a major threat to Europe, with an invincible military record ruled by a Sultan with absolute, even feckless, power of life and death over his subjects who lived to 'delight his senses'.But to the Romantics, fear of the absolute ruler was overlaid by frissons of oriental luxury.

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