Viewing the Islamic Orient: British Travel Writers of the Nineteenth Century

by PallaviPanditLaisram (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $82.46

  Studies the travel accounts of four British travelers during the nineteenth century. This book examines and questions Edward Said's concept of Orientalism and Orientalist discourse: his argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the lens of orientalism.