Abstract

Offers an analysis of Tennyson’s early Arabian Nights poem as an instance of nineteenth-centruy Orientalism, and demonstrates the poem’s reflection or refraction of the early Victorian conception of the East as a site of repetitive, eroticised passivity and stasis. The chapter focuses in particular on the representation and significance here of the song of the nightingale.

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