Moral Codes and Illicit Temptations:Kitschy Feminine Writing in Byron's Turkish Tales
Occidental readers'craving for oriental writing reached the peak during the English romantic period.Unprecedented market demands generated numerous potboilers which more often than not,were vehemently criticized for violating occidental moral mores.With occidental women from middle and high classes in his mind while writing his Turkish Tales,Byron,through the strategies of equilibrium,reverie and"sweet kitsch"and"sour kitsch",not only got away with disobeying moral codes,providing vicarious satisfaction of libido for occidental women,but also followed middle-class women's gender norms and even catered to the illicit curiosity of high-class women.These strategies of kitsch served successfully as foils to occidental women's moral superiority,contributing to the"Byron myth".
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