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Offers an analysis of Tennyson’s early Arabian Nights poem as an instance of nineteenth-centruy Orientalism, and demonstrates the poem’s reflection or refraction of the early Victorian conception of the East as a site of repetitive, eroticised passivity and stasis. The chapter focuses in particular on the representation and significance here of the song of the nightingale.
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Ebbatson, R. (2016). Knowing the Orient: The Young Tennyson. In: Landscapes of Eternal Return. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32838-6_3
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