Browning Upon Arabia A Moveable East /

• Main Author: Jaouad, Hédi A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Poetry.; Middle Eastern literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; Middle Eastern Literature.

Browning Upon Arabia charts Robert Browning's early and enduring engagement with the East, particularly the Arab East. This book highlights the complexities of Browning's poetry, revealing Browning's resistance to triumphalist and imperialist forms of Orientalism generated by many nin...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Browning Upon Arabia
• 2. Browning and the Arabesque
• 3. Abd-el-Kadr, or 'The Found Leader'
• 4. Browning and Ancient Arabic Poetry
• 5. Muléykeh: A Sufi Parable
• 6. The Return of the Druses: Djabal, Betwixt and Between
• 7. Luria: The Second Coming of the Moor
• 8. A Moveable East: Rabbis, Sages, and Dervishes
• 9. Conclusion: An Incipient Arabism?