Frederick N. Bohrer, Orientalism and visual culture. Imagining Mesopotamia in nineteenth-century Europe (2003)

Abstract

A new antiquity – 1. Exoticism as system – 2. The subjects of nineteenth-century exoticism: journeys in space and time – 3. French disconnections – 4. Assyria in England: between text and object – 5. Representing Assyria in England, I: devising alternatives – 6. Representing Assyria in England, II: varieties of circulation – 7. Mesopotamian emulation, interpretation, and imagination in late nineteenth-century France – 8. Germany's Mesopotamia, 1899 to 1915: beyond the nineteenth-century horizon.