Enlightenment Orientalism
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1001 nights
18th century
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allegory
Author_Srinivas Aravamudan
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benjamin
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british
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classics
crebillon
defoe
diderot
discovery
domestic fiction
enlightenment
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ethnography
exotification
exploration
fairy tales
fantasy
folklore
fontenelle
france
galland
goldsmith
hamilton
identity
joyce
libertines
literary theory
literature
manley
marana
montesquieu
nation
nonfiction
orientalism
othering
prevost
rationality
rise of the novel
satire
scheherezade
sexuality
sheridan
sinbad
smollett
swift
talking animals
unknown
voltaire
Product details
- ISBN 9780226024486
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, "Enlightenment Orientalism" is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.
Srinivas Aravamudan is professor of English, Romance studies, and in the literature program at Duke University.
