The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe - 9781349690398
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN13:
9781349690398
$118.37
Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Dialectics of Orientalism demonstrates how texts and images of the sixteenth and seventeenth century from across Europe and the New World are better understood as part of a dynamic and transformative orientalist discourse rather than a manifestation of the supposed dichotomy between the 'East' and the 'West.' The volume's central claim is that early modern orientalist discourses are fundamentally open, self-critical, and creative. Analyzing a varied corpus-from German and Dutch travelogues to Spanish humanist treaties, French essays, Flemish paintings, and English diaries-this collection thus breathes fresh air into the critique of Orientalism and provides productive new perspectives for the study of east-west and indeed globalized exchanges in the early modern world.
- | Author: Marcus Keller, Javier Irigoyen-Garc?a
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Mar 06, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 267 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/History
- | ISBN-10: 1349690392
- | ISBN-13: 9781349690398
- Author:
- Marcus Keller, Javier Irigoyen-Garc?a
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- Mar 06, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 267 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/History
- ISBN-10:
- 1349690392
- ISBN-13:
- 9781349690398