The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
Reza Taher-Kermani
Abstract
The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated, and appropriated. The word ‘Persia’ to the Victorian was not just the name of a territorial entity but a matrix of different notions, created and crafted by a range of oral and written stories, themes and tropes. ‘Persia’ was a product of a mental vision with a long historical heritage, formed by a variety of sources, and circulating in different media. The Victorians responded to this her ... More
Keywords: Victorian Poetry, English Studies, Iranian Studies, Persian Literature, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Literary Orientalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474448161 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2022 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474448161.001.0001 |
