Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation

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Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation is written by Assistant Professor of English Joey S Kim and published by EUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399511262 (ISBN 10) and 9781399511261 (ISBN 13).

Confronts the racial and ethnic logics of the Oriental subject undergirding the development of Romantic poeticsWhat happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new paths, borders and orientations--those that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East and West? In this innovative new study, Joey S. Kim traces shifting orientations - cultural, geographical, aesthetic, racial and gendered - through Orientalist sites, subjects and settings, to offer refreshing insights into the 'Orient' in British Romantic poetry. Examining what the 'Orient' is, where it is, who it stands for and where it leads, she coins the term 'poetics of orientation' to describe a poetics newly aware of cultural difference as a site of aesthetic contestation. Rather than situating the lyric subject in assumed racial whiteness, 'poetics of orientation' repositions the lyric subject within discussions of Orientalism and racial formation, tracing the white supremacist logics that have for too long been dismissed as inessential or nonconsequential to Romantic studies. Joey S. Kim is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. She researches global Anglophone literature with a focus on eighteenth and nineteeth-century poetics and aesthetics.