Orientalist writing varies along a continuum of ego and self-control

Evidence

No pilgrim, French or English, could so ruthlessly dominate his self or his subject as Lane did. Even Burton and T. E. Lawrence, of whom the former fashioned a deliberately Muslim pilgrimage and the latter what he called a reverse pilgrimage away from Mecca, delivered masses of historical, political, and social Orientalism that were never as free of their egos as Lane’s were of his. This is why Burton, Lawrence, and Charles Doughty occupy a middle position between Lane and Chateaubriand. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 431

Categorization

• XREF: The Lane-vs-Chateaubriand spectrum of ego in scholarship maps onto later distinctions in the Islamophobia field between ‘objective’ expertise and openly partisan polemic. — connects to: Orientalist writing can serve as ego-prolongation rather than impersonal scholarship — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 446; Orientalist description gets obliterated by the imperial ego’s projections — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 438; Orientalist texts reveal most about their authors’ own cultures — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 443 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 431
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Orientalist writing can serve as ego-prolongation rather than impersonal scholarship — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 446; Orientalist description gets obliterated by the imperial ego’s projections — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 438; Orientalist texts reveal most about their authors’ own cultures — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 443 (+1 more)