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Author:

Aravamudan, Srinivas.

Title:

Enlightenment Orientalism : resisting the rise of the novel / Srinivas Aravamudan.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2012, ©2012

Description:

xiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Orientalism--Europe--History--18th century.
Orientalism in literature.
Orient--In literature.
European fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Enlightenment--Europe.
Geschichte 1680-1800.
Aufklärung.
Orientalisierende Literatur.
Orientalismus.
Prosa.
Roman.
Europa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-327) and index.

Contents:

Enlightenment orientalism -- Pseudoethnographies -- Fiction/translation/transculturation : Marana, Behn, Galland, Defoe -- Oriental singularity : Montesquieu, Goldsmith, Hamilton -- Transcultural allegories -- Discoveries of new worlds, talking animals, and remote nations : Fontenelle, Bidpai, Swift, Voltaire -- Libertine orientalism : Prévost, Crébillon, Diderot -- The oriental tale as transcultural allegory : Manley, Haywood, Sheridan, Smollett -- Conclusion: Sindbad and Scheherezade, or Benjamin and Joyce.

ISBN:

0226024490 (paperback: alkaline paper)
9780226024493 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226024482 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226024486 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)714726335

LCCN:

2011034122

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)