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Introduction: radical Orientalism and the rights of man
1. Cruel and unusual romance: Beckford, Byron, and the abomination of violence
2. Reading the Oriental Riot Act: petition, assembly, and Shelley's constitutional sublime
3. Splendors and miseries of the British Sultanate: economic Orientalism, inequality, and radical satire
4. Reasoning like a Turk: indolence and fatalism in Sardanapalus and The Last Man
5. Byronic infidelity and despotic individuality: sex, religion, and free agency
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1. Cruel and unusual romance: Beckford, Byron, and the abomination of violence
2. Reading the Oriental Riot Act: petition, assembly, and Shelley's constitutional sublime
3. Splendors and miseries of the British Sultanate: economic Orientalism, inequality, and radical satire
4. Reasoning like a Turk: indolence and fatalism in Sardanapalus and The Last Man
5. Byronic infidelity and despotic individuality: sex, religion, and free agency
Bibliography.