Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation

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Joey S. Kim (Assistant Professor of English, University of Toledo)

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English

Edinburgh University Press
04 January 2024

Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

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 'Orient' in British Romantic poetry? To where does the 'Orient' 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 'poetics of orientation' 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 'poetics of orientation', 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.

By: Joey S. Kim (Assistant Professor of English University of Toledo)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399511254
ISBN 10: 1399511254
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 04 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction. Romanticism, Orientalism, Orientation 1. Situating the ""Orient"" in British Romantic Poetry 2. Byron’s Cosmopolitan ""East"" 3. The Racialized Poetess 4. Disorienting Romanticism: William Blake’s Orientalist Poetics Conclusion Works Cited Index

Joey S. Kim (she/her) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. She researches global Anglophone literature with a focus on 18th- and 19th-century poetics and aesthetics. She has published work in Essays in Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Journal, Keats-Shelley Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, American Periodicals, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. A poet as well as a literary critic, her award-winning first book of poems, Body Facts, was released in 2021.www.joeyskim.comTwitter: @joeykim

Reviews for Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation

With Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Joey S. Kim reminds us that we can’t begin to understand the Romantics without attending to their eastward gaze, and that the critique of Orientalism is as urgent now as it was in Edward Said’s day. -- Manu Samriti Chander, Rutgers University