Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation

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Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation is written by Joey S. Kim and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399511289 (ISBN 10) and 9781399511285 (ISBN 13).

What happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new lines, borders, and orientations-those that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West? What is, who stands for, and where exactly is the "e;Orient"e; in British Romantic poetry? To where does the "e;Orient"e; lead? Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation responds by tracing shifting orientations-cultural, geographical, aesthetic, racial, and gendered- through Orientalist sites, subjects, and settings. Kim coins the term "e;poetics of orientation"e; to describe a poetics newly aware of cultural difference as a site of aesthetic contestation. She focuses on the contestation that occurs at the site of the lyric subject. A "e;poetics of orientation"e;, rather than situating the lyric subject in assumed racial whiteness, 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.