1. Discourse and Heterogeneity: Situating Orientalism. p. 1
2. Travel Narratives and Orientalism: Montagu and Montesquieu. p. 30
3. Orient as Woman, Orientalism as Sentimentalism: Flaubert. p. 75
4. Orientalism as Literary Criticism: The Reception of E. M. Forster's Passage to India. p. 102
5. Desires of Postcolonial Orientalism: Chinese Utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel. p. 136
Summary
"Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET