Nordic Orientalism: Paris and the Cosmopolitan Imagination 1800-1900

By Elisabeth Oxfeldt

Nordic Orientalism explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian nineteenth-century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said''s binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European countries on the periphery ? Denmark and Norway ? imported Oriental imagery from France to position themselves, not against their colonial Other, but in relation to central European nations. Examining Nordic Orientalism across a century in the context of modernization, urbanization and democratization the study furthermore shows how the Romanticists? naive treatment of the Orient was challenged by increased contact with the "real" Orient.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8763501341
• ISBN13: 9788763501347
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.4"