Author Beckford lived out Orientalist fantasy by renaming his estate Baghdad

Evidence

The trend toward the exotic was fueled by the growth of Romanticism, an artistic and philosophical movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The image of an exotic Orient associated with “sensuality, promise, terror, sublimity, idyllic pleasure, [and] intense energy” can be found in the works of musicians, painters, novelists, and philosophers from Mozart to Byron, Hugo, and Goethe. To be fair, the Romantics did not only look to the East for the exotic: they also looked to their own past, drawing from Gothic tales and stories of European barbarians. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Travelers’ firsthand experience could not overturn their Orientalist fantasies; Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89

Related

• Travelers’ firsthand experience could not overturn their Orientalist fantasies (similarity 0.86)
• Romantic-era artists literally inhabited their Orientalist fantasies in daily life (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism’s ontological rigidity makes its fantasies nearly impossible to dismantle (similarity 0.85)
• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge (similarity 0.84)
• Romantic adventurers challenged the institutional authority of professional Orientalists. (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism ignores factual accuracy in favor of exotic horror (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalist science masks an egoistic will to power (similarity 0.81)
• Eighteenth-century France romanticized exotic others as noble (similarity 0.81)
• Romantic restorative reconstruction shaped Orientalist writing’s form and intent (similarity 0.81)
• The real Orient rarely guided European artistic visions of it (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptians held romantic fantasies about southern territories they barely administered (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge #exemplifies (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89