A taste for the foreign
Subtitle: worldly knowledge and literary pleasure in early modern French fiction
By: Ellen R. Welch
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781611490626; 9781611490633
Subjects: French literature; Literature and globalization; History and criticism; National characteristics, French, in literature; Exoticism in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Manufacturing foreignness: exoticism, commodities, and the novel; title: Fiction and the aesthetics of foreignness; title: Armchair conquests: heroic romance and the cartographies of desire; title: Cosmopolitan seductions: city guides and Parisian novels; title: Secret agents, foreign courts: international voyeurism in memoir fictions; title: Consuming curiosities in extraordinary voyage novels.