Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual HistoryCenturies before W. B. Years wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage. Relying on cultural and postcolonial theory, Joseph Lennon examines Irish impressions of Asia and West Asia, understood together as the Orient in the West. British writers from Cambrensis to Spenser depicted Ireland as a remote border land inhabited by wild descendants of Asian Scythians - barbarians to the ancient Greeks. Contemporaneous Irish writers likewise borrowed classical traditions, imagining the Orient as an ancient homeland. Lennon traces Irish Orientalism through origin legends, philology, antiquarianism, historiography into Irish literature and culture, exploring the works of Keating, O'Flaherty, Swift, Vallancey, Sheridan, Moore, Croker, Owenson, Mangan, de Vere, and others. He focuses on a key moment of Irish Orientalism - the twentieth-century Celtic Revival - discussing the works of Gregory, Casement, and Joyce, but focusing on Theosophist writers W. B. Yeats, George Russell, James Stephens, and |
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affinities Anglo-French Anglo-Irish anticolonial antiquarian antiquity argues arguments Asia Asian Asian and West asserts barbaric Brehon law Britain British Empire Catholic Celt Celtic languages Celtic Revival Celtic-Oriental Celticist Charles Vallancey Chinese civilization colonial comparisons connection Cousins's critics critique cross-colonial decolonization developed discourse discussion Dublin early East Egypt Egyptian eighteenth England English essay Europe European Gabala Gaelic Greek historians identity images imperial India Irish culture Irish language Irish nationalism Irish Orientalism Irish Orientalists Irish origin legends Irish writers James Cousins land language later Lebor Gabala Leerssen letters linguistic literary literature medieval Milesian missionary modern mystical narratives native Nennius nineteenth century notes O'Flaherty Oriental origin Orientalist Owenson particularly Persian Phoblacht Phoenician poem poet poetry political pseudohistory race religion representations Roman scholars Scythian semiotic significant similar Spenser spiritual Stephens Stephens's story Tagore Tagore's texts Theosophy tion tradition translations Vallancey W. B. Yeats West Asian wrote Yeats Yeats's
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