ORIENTALISM AND BOREALISM IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (Hard Cover)
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| Author: | Mudure, Mihaela | |
| Year: | 2026 | |
| Pages: | 372 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1360-2 978-1-4955-1360-2 | |
| Price: | $239.95 + shipping | |
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This collection focuses on two discourses of symbolic power
(Orientalism and Borealism) during the long eighteenth
century. Edward Said's seminal essay canonized the former and
pushed into neglect or oblivion other Orientalisms that rely on
different understandings of the East vs. West binary
opposition. The East is not only the Middle East and the West
is not only Western Europe. On the other hand, the North was
and still is also othered in several discourses of symbolic
power which we feel justified to call Borealisms. This
collection is meant to make its readers aware that behind any
attempt to classify the Others there is the temptation of
power.
Table of Contents
Introduction Mihaela Mudure
I. Orientalizations
Reading the Other: Orientalism and 3 the Feminization of Eighteenth-Century Culture in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
Miriam Borham-Puyal
Legitimizing Exoticism: The Case of George
Psalmanazar’s Pseudo-Oriental Account Elena Butoescu Orientalizing ‘the English Malady’ in Samuel
Johnson’s Rasselas
Elena Ciobanu
The Oriental Other in Maria Edgeworth’s Murad 87 the Unlucky and Mary Lamb’s The Young Mahometan Andrada Danilescu
II. Borealist perspectives
Utopia, Progress, and the Sublime of “the Boreal” in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Éva Antal
Borealism and Ecocriticism in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing Paul Mihai Paraschiv
Re-presenting the North: Early Borealism with Petter Dass and Ludvig Holberg Raluca Pop and Ioana-Andreea Mureșan
“Leaving Behind Traces of Civilized Life”: Matthew Consett’s Journey to Northern Europe Marta Zonca
III. Crossings, Intersections, and Reverberations
The ‘Northern Latitudes’ of Edward Daniel Clarke’s Transcontinental Tour Carmen Borbély
The Middle Passage and the Kala Pani: Orientalist and Borealist Reverberations in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry Monica Manolachi
Animal Representations in Borealist and Orientalist Travel Literature of the Eighteenth Century Cansu Özge Özmen
R.F. Kuang and the Orientalist Discourse Raluca Popescu
Notes on Contributors
I. Orientalizations
Reading the Other: Orientalism and 3 the Feminization of Eighteenth-Century Culture in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
Miriam Borham-Puyal
Legitimizing Exoticism: The Case of George
Psalmanazar’s Pseudo-Oriental Account Elena Butoescu Orientalizing ‘the English Malady’ in Samuel
Johnson’s Rasselas
Elena Ciobanu
The Oriental Other in Maria Edgeworth’s Murad 87 the Unlucky and Mary Lamb’s The Young Mahometan Andrada Danilescu
II. Borealist perspectives
Utopia, Progress, and the Sublime of “the Boreal” in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Éva Antal
Borealism and Ecocriticism in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing Paul Mihai Paraschiv
Re-presenting the North: Early Borealism with Petter Dass and Ludvig Holberg Raluca Pop and Ioana-Andreea Mureșan
“Leaving Behind Traces of Civilized Life”: Matthew Consett’s Journey to Northern Europe Marta Zonca
III. Crossings, Intersections, and Reverberations
The ‘Northern Latitudes’ of Edward Daniel Clarke’s Transcontinental Tour Carmen Borbély
The Middle Passage and the Kala Pani: Orientalist and Borealist Reverberations in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry Monica Manolachi
Animal Representations in Borealist and Orientalist Travel Literature of the Eighteenth Century Cansu Özge Özmen
R.F. Kuang and the Orientalist Discourse Raluca Popescu
Notes on Contributors