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,...