Essays      Introduction: British Orientalist Painting                          

                 Nicholas Tromans                                                                  10

                 Cultures Crossed: John Frederick Lewis and the Art

                 of Orientalist Painting

                 Emily M. Weeks

                 Seduced by 'Samar', or: How British Orientalist painters

                 Iearned to stop worrying and love the darkness

                 Fatema Mernissi                                                                    33

                 Regarding Orientalist Painting Today

                 Rana Kabbani                                                                        40

Sections   Travellers and Sitters: The Orientalist Portrait

                 Christine Riding                                                                    48

                 Genre and Gender in Cairo and Constantinople

                 Nicholas Tromans                                                                  76

                 The Orient in Perspective                                                   

                 Nicholas Tromans                                                                102

                 Harem and Home

                 Nicholas Tromans                                                                126

                 The Holy City

                 Nicholas Tromans                                                                162

                 Notes                                                                                   198

                 Some Key Political Events, 1792-1923                              206

                 Further Reading                                                                  207

                 Artists' Biographies                                                             208

                 List of Exhibited Works                                                     214

                 List of Lenders                                                                    217

                 Index                                                                                   218

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