Oriental tales circulated widely in English literature across two centuries

Evidence

Without what he called spirit and style, the mind could “get lost in archaeology”: he was referring to a sort of regimented antiquarianism by which the exotic and the strange would get formulated into lexicons, codes, and finally clichés of the kind he was to ridicule in the Dictionnaire des idées reçues. Under the influence of such an attitude the world would be “regulated like a college. Teachers will be the law. Everyone will be in uniform.” — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487; Modern Orientalism expanded representational range after the late eighteenth century; Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise (+1 more)

Related

• Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalism operates as radical realism, enumerative rhetoric, and paranoia. (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalism functioned like bureaucracy, treating humans as occasions for files (similarity 0.87)
• Indo-European philology grounded European languages in a harmless Oriental source. (similarity 0.86)
• Early American Orientalist tales depicted Easterners as convertible through democracy and love (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.84)
• The word ‘Oriental’ alone invoked a fixed, unchallengeable body of knowledge (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism operates as both an academic discipline and a repository of cultural images (similarity 0.83)
• Oriental representations become repetitive pseudoincarnations serving narcissistic Western needs. (similarity 0.83)
• Naming someone an Oriental was also an act of derogation (similarity 0.82)
• European knowledge of the Orient assembled a restricted archive of tropes that controlled novelty (similarity 0.82)
• Europe’s literary repertoire of the Orient half-imagined settings and figures. (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism is only the visible tip of a larger modern structure. (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism generated a free-floating mythology detached from actual Orientals (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Orientalism disciplined the exotic into lexicons, codes, and clichés #expands (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 487
• Modern Orientalism expanded representational range after the late eighteenth century #expands (0.80)
• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise #qualifies (0.75)