Twentieth-century Orientalists shifted from writing for peers to writing for a lay public

Evidence

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Orientalists wrote for one another, but in the twentieth century and particularly after the Second World War this changed as experts on the Arabs and Islam were invited to write general books for a lay public as well as to contribute to newspapers, literary journals and programmes on radio and television. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 463

Categorization

• SEED: A potential essay angle on how expert public intellectualism reshaped the politics of area-studies knowledge.
• XREF: Connects to Irwin’s broader theme that Orientalists’ political influence grew as they entered mass media. — connects to: Freest intellectuals stopped writing for an imagined future audience

Related

• Freest intellectuals stopped writing for an imagined future audience (similarity 0.85)
• Many Orientalists wrote directly for Muslim and Arab audiences (similarity 0.81)
• The Second World War transformed academic Orientalism in Britain (similarity 0.81)