SOURCE: “Robert Southey and the Oriental Renaissance,” in Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. 47-86.
In the following excerpt, Majeed explores Robert Southey's two Oriental romances, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama, in terms of his attempt to discern historical patterns.
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