ENG 470 / 570 Spring 2025

In her article On Exhibits: Victorians and their Museums, Barbara J. Black argues about the inherent devaluation of gift books, simply through their ability to achieve the status of gift book. She centers her text around the idea that the available number of editions grants the poem status of treasure, which robs the poetry of its intrinsic value. In… more

In Barbara Black’s work, On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums, she argues that the beautification of the Rubáiyát is directly related to its status as a piece of culturally appropriated… more

In her book titled On Exhibit: Victorians and their Museums Barbara J. Black brings light to the acutely Victorian attraction of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám as the links with which the… more

In On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums, Barbara Black examines the cultural significance of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Black does this examination… more

Edward Said stated in his introduction to Orientalism, “Orientalism is a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made between ‘the Orient’ and (most of the time) ‘the Occident’” (2). In this tradition, the East is not simply a geographic… more

In On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums, Barbara Black explores the impact of Victorian imperialism on the translation by Edward FitzGerald of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám. She… more

Black argues that the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is diminutive of Persian culture and Orientalist in nature because of FitzGerald's translation and the Gift Book Culture's appropriation of what Victorians’ defined as “exotic” elements of “the East.” Many editions of the … more

My edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is titled: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. The author(s) are Omar Khayyám and Edward FitzGerald. The Translator is Edward FitzGerald. On the OSU… more

My edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is titled: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. The author(s) are Omar Khayyám and Edward FitzGerald. The Translator is Edward FitzGerald. On the OSU… more

In On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums, Barbara Black explores the idea of appropriation that she believes has occurred through the growing popularity of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Black… more