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1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) |
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Enlightenment orientalism -- Pseudoethnographies -- Fiction/translation/transculturation -- Marana, Behn, Galland, Defoe -- Oriental singularity -- Montesquieu, Goldsmith, Hamilton -- Transcultural allegories -- Discoveries of new worlds, talking animals, and remote nations -- Fontenelle, Bidpai, Swift, Voltaire -- Libertine orientalism -- Prévost, Crébillon, Diderot -- The oriental tale as transcultural allegory -- Manley, Haywood, Sheridan, Smollett -- Sindbad and Scheherezade, or Benjamin and Joyce |
| Summary |
Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and wri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-327) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Orientalism -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Orientalism in literature.
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European fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Enlightenment -- Europe
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Enlightenment
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European fiction
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Literature
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Orientalism
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Orientalism in literature
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Aufklärung
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Orientalisierende Literatur
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Orientalismus Kunst
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Prosa
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Roman
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Orientalismus.
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Literatur.
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Roman.
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Orientalism i litteraturen.
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Upplysningen -- Europa.
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Skönlitteratur -- historia -- 1700-talet.
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Orientalism -- historia -- 1700-talet.
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Orient -- In literature
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Asia -- Orient
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Europe
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Europa
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Europa.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226024509 |
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0226024504 |
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1283317028 |
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9781283317023 |
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9786613317025 |
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6613317020 |
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