Enlightenment Orientalism
Subtitle: resisting the rise of the novel
By: Srinivas Aravamudan
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780226024486; 9780226024493
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Orientalism in literature; Enlightenment; In literature; Orientalism; European fiction; History; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enlightenment orientalism; title: Pseudoethnographies; title: Fiction/translation/transculturation; title: Marana, Behn, Galland, Defoe; title: Oriental singularity; title: Montesquieu, Goldsmith, Hamilton; title: Transcultural allegories; title: Discoveries of new worlds, talking animals, and remote nations; title: Fontenelle, Bidpai, Swift, Voltaire; title: Libertine orientalism; title: Prévost, Crébillon, Diderot; title: The oriental tale as transcultural allegory; title: Manley, Haywood, Sheridan, Smollett; title: Sindbad and Scheherezade, or Benjamin and Joyce.