SOURCE: “Thackeray and Orientalism: Cornhill to Cairo and The Newcomes,” in English Studies in Canada, Vol. XVI, No. 3, September, 1990, pp. 297-313.
In the following excerpt, Perkin discusses William Makepeace Thackeray's use of Oriental motifs in his novel The Newcomes and cites some influences on Thackeray's notion of Orientalism as presented in his travel book Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo.
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