Introduction: Britain at the fin de siècle and the Orientalist unconscious -- The two tangents of British Orientalism : Burton and Doughty, dandy and prophet in the 1880s -- Khartoum nightmare : popular literature of the British campaign in the Sudan -- A refusal and a traversal : Robert Cunninghame Graham's engagement with Orientalism in Mogreb-el-Acksa -- Orientalism from within and without : Marmaduke Pickthall -- The Arabist as abject modern : T.E. Lawrence -- Conclusion: How to read the Orientalist archive