Eighteenth-century France romanticized exotic others as noble

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89; The oppressed-Muslim-woman trope emerged in 18th-19th century Europe, not earlier

Related

• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism’s ontological rigidity makes its fantasies nearly impossible to dismantle (similarity 0.85)
• Romantic adventurers challenged the institutional authority of professional Orientalists. (similarity 0.85)
• Romantic restorative reconstruction shaped Orientalist writing’s form and intent (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalist science masks an egoistic will to power (similarity 0.83)
• The oppressed-Muslim-woman trope emerged in 18th-19th century Europe, not earlier (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism ignores factual accuracy in favor of exotic horror (similarity 0.81)
• Author Beckford lived out Orientalist fantasy by renaming his estate Baghdad (similarity 0.81)
• Enlightenment science and Romanticism both renewed medieval Muslim-monster fantasies rather than ending them (similarity 0.80)
• Travelers’ firsthand experience could not overturn their Orientalist fantasies (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptians held romantic fantasies about southern territories they barely administered (similarity 0.79)
• Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalist paintings of Muslim women reveal European male fantasy more than real conditions. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89
• The oppressed-Muslim-woman trope emerged in 18th-19th century Europe, not earlier #exemplifies (0.70)