Enlightenment Orientalism
Resisting the Rise of the Novel
Enlightenment Orientalism
Resisting the Rise of the Novel
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.
360 pages | 13 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2011
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature, Romance Languages
Reviews
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part 1 Pseudoethnographies
1 Fiction/Translation/Transculturation
Marana, Behn, Galland, Defoe
2 Oriental Singularity
Montesquieu, Goldsmith, Hamilton
Part 2 Transcultural Allegories
3 Discoveries of New Worlds, Talking Animals, and Remote Nations
Fontenelle, Bidpai, Swift, Voltaire
Prévost, Crébillon, Diderot
Manley, Haywood, Sheridan, Smollett
Conclusion: Sindbad and Scheherezade, or Benjamin and Joyce
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Awards
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
Won
International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN): George and Barbara Perkins Prize
Won
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Oscar Kenshur Book Prize
Won
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