Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of lslam and Muslimsis a study on Literary Orientalism that inspects and discusses the
image of Muslims and lslam in English Literature through history. It
identifies and examines the imperialistic as well as the positive
pluralistic perspectives of lslam by the Western world. In his several
articles and notes, Abdur Raheem Kidwai has studied perspectives from
the age of Southey and Byron to the contemporary writings of Balwant
Gargi and Qaisra Shahraz.
Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of Islam and Muslimsis a collection of articles, notes and book reviews on Literary
Orientalism - a new, emerging subfield of English studies. Literary
Orientalism, covering the tropes of Imagology, representation and
cross-cultural encounter, stands for the depiction of Islam and Muslims
in English literary texts down the ages. Among the practitioners of
Literary Orientalism are such outstanding men of letters as Chaucer,
Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, Beckford, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Shelley, Byron, Moore, Scott, Browning, Arnold, Tennyson, Carlyle,
Kipling, Forster, Conrad, Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, and Lessing. This Volume
analyzes various facets of Literary Orientalism, including book
reviews on the latest publications in the field.
