The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East (okładka  twarda, wyd. 06.2018)

The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism` redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century. It takes as a starting point Edward Said`s `Orientalism` (1978) in order to investigate the latent and manifest traces of the East in Pre-Raphaelite literature and culture. As Eleonora Sasso demonstrates, the Pre-Raphaelites and their associates appeared to be the most eligible representatives of a profoundly conservative manifestation of the Orient, of its mystic aura, criminal underworld, and feminine sensuality, or to put it into Arabic terms, of its aja`ib (marvels), mutalibun (treasure-hunters) and hur al-ayn (femmes fatales). By combining together Western and Oriental modes of art, this study fills a gap in Pre-Raphaelite and Oriental studies.