Exoticism in the enlightenment
By: edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter.
Contributors: Rousseau, G. S.; Porter, Roy, 1946-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 18th century.; East and West -- History -- 18th century.; Enlightenment.; British -- Asia -- History -- 18th century.; Exoticism in literature.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter; title: The mysteries of Islam / Ian Richard Netton; title: Taming the exotic : the British and India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / P.J. Marshall; title: Ad majorem societatis gloriam : Jesuit perspectives on Chinese mores in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Basil Guy; title: Noble and ignoble savages / V.G. Kiernan; title: The exotic as erotic : Captain Cook at Tahiti / Roy Porter; title: The discrete charms of the exotic : fictions of the harem in eighteenth-century France / Suzanne Rodin Pucci; title: Elegancy and wildness : reflections of the East in the eighteenth-century imagination / Frances Mannaker; title: Psalmanazar's "Formosa" and the British reader (including Samuel Johnson) / Robert Adams Day.