Title: Enlightenment Orientalism : resisting the rise of the novel /
Authors: Aravamudan, Srinivas.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Orientalism Europe History; Orientalism in literature.; European fiction History and criticism.; Enlightenment Europe; Orient In literature.
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.