Fabulous Orients
Subtitle: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780199234295
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Orientalism; Travel writing; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 18th century; Civilization, Oriental, in literature; Early modern, 1500-1700; English fiction; History and criticism
First sentence: The unsung second daughter of the vizier must wake every morning before dawn in her makeshift bed at the foot of the magnificent raised alcove on which her newly married sister and the sultan sleep.