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1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-327) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Orientalism -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Orientalism. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Orientalism in literature.
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Orientalism in literature. |
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Orient -- In literature.
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Draper. |
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European fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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European fiction. |
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Enlightenment -- Europe.
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Enlightenment. |
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1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aravamudan, Srinivas. Enlightenment Orientalism. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012 9780226024486 (DLC) 2011034122 (OCoLC)714726335 |
| ISBN |
9780226024509 (electronic book) |
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0226024504 (electronic book) |
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1283317028 |
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9781283317023 |
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9780226024486 |
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9780226024493 |
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0226024482 |
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0226024490 |
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