Foreign bodies : gender, language, and culture in French orientalism /
Dobie, Madeleine.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Polygamy, slavery, and the colonies: Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois -- Truth and representations: old and new languages in the Lettres persanes -- Intimacy exposed: gender, race, and language in the Oriental tale -- Spilt figures: women and language in the Oriental travelogue -- The modernist turn in orientalism: Gautier's Egyptian tales.
French literature