Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient

by Roderick Cavaliero

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780764820
• ISBN13: 9781780764825
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"