Fabulous orients
Subtitle: fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785
By: Ros Ballaster.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: English literature -- Asian influences; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Orientalism in literature; Exoticism in literature; Middle East -- In literature; Orient -- In literature; Asia -- In literature
Description: "Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the eighteenth century, and challenges the assumption that has dominated since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) that such traffic is always one-way." "This is the first book-length study of the oriental tale to appear for almost a century. Informed by recent historiographical and literary reassessments of western constructions of the East, it develops an original argument about the use of narrative as a form of sympathetic and imaginative engagement with otherness, a disinvestment of the self rather than a confident expression of colonial or imperial ambition."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.