Enlightenment hospitality
Subtitle: cannibals, harems and adoption
By: Judith Still
Series: SVEC -- 2011:03; SVEC -- 2011:03.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780729410106
Subjects: Hospitality; History and criticism; Hospitality in literature; Modern Literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Enlightenment hospitality; title: The new world : received as gods; title: The new world : eating the other; title: Enlightenment Persia; title: Turkish travels : hospitable harems and good guests; title: Other as guest : the special case of adoption and sexual predation; title: Revolution and rights; title: Concluding questions : now and then.