Ottomania

Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth''. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient.Cavaliero draws on a life-time''s research in Romantic literature and introduces a rich cast of leading Romantic writers,artists,musicians and travellers,including Beckford,Byron, Shelley,Walter Scott,Pierre Loti,Thomas Moore,Rossini,Eugene Delacroix,Thackeray an...