Fables of the East : selected tales, 1662-1785 /
A selection of the travel and fictional texts which transported eighteenth-century readers to the exciting and exotic territories of Mughal India, Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia and Confucian China. The anthology illustrates the enduring influence of oriental narrative in the formation of the novel...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1423757130 9781423757139 9780191556173 0191556173 128075673X 9781280756733 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | A selection of the travel and fictional texts which transported eighteenth-century readers to the exciting and exotic territories of Mughal India, Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia and Confucian China. The anthology illustrates the enduring influence of oriental narrative in the formation of the novel in early modern Europe. - ;Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and fiction. Organized according to genre in order to illustrate the diverse. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 277 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |