Description |
1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
Contents |
Missionaries and travelers -- Persia : a courtly east in the French imaginaire -- Against all odds : the diplomatic mission of Pierre-Victor Michel to Persia, 1706-1708 -- The Persian embassy to France in 1715 : conflict and understanding -- Images of Mohammad Reza Beg : fashioning the ambassador -- Images of the Persian visit : connections between the Safavid and Bourbon crowns -- The absolutist mirror |
Summary |
'The Persian Mirror' explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's 'Persian Letters', French intellectuals, diplomats, and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction, and printed and painted images, the text describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of Orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined |
Notes |
Also issued in print: 2019 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
Specialized |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 4, 2020) |
Subject |
Travelers' writings, French -- Iran -- History and criticism
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Visits of state -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Orientalism -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Diplomatic relations
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International relations
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Orientalism
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Ṣafavid Dynasty (Iran)
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Travelers' writings, French
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Visits of state
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SUBJECT |
France -- Relations -- Iran
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Iran -- Relations -- France
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France -- Foreign relations -- Iran
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Iran -- Foreign relations -- France
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Iran -- History -- Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007363
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France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051301
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Subject |
France
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Iran
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780190884826 (ebook) |
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0190884827 (ebook) |
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