Reza Taher-Kermani. The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry

Abstract

Building on the author’s PhD thesis on “the British cultural and imaginative engagements with Persia in the nineteenth century” (vi), the volume charts “the diversity of perceptions associated with Persia in Victorian literary culture” (2). It focuses on poetry as the medium through which to survey the Victorian conception of Persia. It consists of an introduction, five chapters, an epilogue, a bibliography, and an index. Following a chronological pattern, Chapter One moves forward from the G...