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Orientalism

Here are entered works on Western views of Asia or the Middle East and/or adoption of characteristics of Asian or Middle Eastern culture by Westerners.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• East and West
• Asia -- Foreign public opinion, Western
• Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, Western

• Orientalism -- Europe
• Orientalism -- Fiction
• Orientalism -- Study and teaching
• Orientalism -- West (U.S.)
• Orientalism in art
• Orientalism in literature

• Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Lisa Lowe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Daniel L. Purdy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Razor's Edge (c1944), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)

• Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2011), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Bases of Values in a Time of Change: Chinese and Western (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by Kirti Bunchua, Liu Fangtong, Yu Xuanmeng, and Yu Xujin (multiple formats at Google)
• Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2011), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• As the Chinese See Us (London: T. F. Unwin, 1901), by Thomas G. Selby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Turkey in Europe, and Europe in Turkey, by Turgut Özal (HTML at loc.gov)

• The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, by Rudyard Kipling and Charles Wolcott Balestier (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1898), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by Sidney Paget
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Persian and Chinese Letters: Being the Lettres Persanes by Charles Louis, Baron de Montesquieu, Translated and Introduced by John Davidson; and The Citizen of the World, by Oliver Goldsmith (Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne, 1901), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu and Oliver Goldsmith, trans. by John Davidson, contrib. by Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Persian Letters (English translation; London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1891), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by John Davidson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom (electronic edition), by Morgan Gibson (HTML at Light and Dust)