Harems of the mind : passages of Western art and literature
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0300083890
ISBN 13
9780300083897
DDC
700
Category
Women and the Law
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Publication Year
2000
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Pages
xii, 314 pages
Subject
Women and the Law
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Abstract
"The book provides both a rich account of changing perceptions of the harem and a demonstration of the tenacious persistence of myth and stereotype. Yeazell shows that Europe's hunger for facts about the harem combined repeatedly with the impulse to fantasize. Masculine erotic fantasies of the harem were reflected in the paintings of Ingres and Delacroix, the writings of de Sade, Byron, and Loti, and the work of anonymous pornographers. Alternate representations portrayed the harem as a prison or a locus of freedom, a place of murderous rivalry or a home of loving sisterhood, a chamber of erotic license or a nightmarish snare of frustration and ennui. And Montesquieu, Mozart, and Charlotte Bronte among others explored in their art the opposition of the imaginary pleasures of the harem to the freely chosen union of a loving couple. In a nuanced reading of Ingres's Bain turc and other works, Yeazell concludes that for some the appeal of the harem lay in the fantasy of eluding time and death."--Jacket.
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Content:
Some travelers' tales -- Seeing it all : Ingres and Delacroix -- Documenting the harem from Bajazet to the Bain turc -- The fantastic facts of Les désenchantées -- A prison for slaves -- Rebellion in the sérail of Montesquieu's Persian -- Visions of oppression from Wollstonecraft to Nightingale -- Looking for liberty : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Victorians -- Pleasure in numbers -- A climate for pornography -- Multiplying effects : lesbians and eunuchs -- Anti-erotics : frustration and ennui -- Free hearts in Montesquieu, Mozart, and Bryon -- Taming Soliman and other great ones -- Leaving the harem behind -- Plotting jealousy from Racine to the Victorians -- Manley's Almyna and other dreams of sisterhood -- Disenchantments with the myth -- Celebrations of domestic virtue -- John Frederick Lewis and the art of the Victorian harem -- The pastness of the Orient -- The lesson of the Bain turc.
Some travelers' tales -- Seeing it all : Ingres and Delacroix -- Documenting the harem from Bajazet to the Bain turc -- The fantastic facts of Les désenchantées -- A prison for slaves -- Rebellion in the sérail of Montesquieu's Persian -- Visions of oppression from Wollstonecraft to Nightingale -- Looking for liberty : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Victorians -- Pleasure in numbers -- A climate for pornography -- Multiplying effects : lesbians and eunuchs -- Anti-erotics : frustration and ennui -- Free hearts in Montesquieu, Mozart, and Bryon -- Taming Soliman and other great ones -- Leaving the harem behind -- Plotting jealousy from Racine to the Victorians -- Manley's Almyna and other dreams of sisterhood -- Disenchantments with the myth -- Celebrations of domestic virtue -- John Frederick Lewis and the art of the Victorian harem -- The pastness of the Orient -- The lesson of the Bain turc.
Biblio Notes
Donated by Graham Price.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-307) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-307) and index.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 909 | WMN YEAZELL 2000 | 1 | Yes |