"As Between Two Wedded Wives": Wordsworth's Oriental(ised) Spots of Tradition

The article focuses on William Wordsworth's use of Orientalism in his later poetry, through a reading of the medieval romance titled "The Armenian Lady's Love". It argues that Wordsworth's employment of orientalist rhetoric in this poem enables the poet to articulate the nexus fancy-tradition, projecting anxieties about the collapse of racial and religious boundaries onto an idealised medieval past, whose relics record, iconographically inscribe, and domesticate potentially destabilizing colonial encounters.