Enlightenment Orientalism : resisting the rise of the novel /
Aravamudan, Srinivas.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Orientalism
Orientalism in literature.
European fiction
Enlightenment