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999255
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b753625
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Ballaster, Rosalind.
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| Title & Author
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Fabulous orients : : fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785 /\ Ros Ballaster.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xiii, 408 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0191514853
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: 1280756721
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: 6610756724
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: 9780191514852
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: 9781280756726
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: 9786610756728
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0199267332
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9780199267330
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-392) and index.
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| Contents
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Narrative moves. Dinarzade, the second string -- The state of narrative -- Shape-shifting: Oriental tales. Fadlallah and Zemroude: transmigratory desires -- The framed sequence -- Travellers' tales -- Fictional letters -- Histories -- Heroic drama -- A passion for tales -- Tales of the Seraglio: Turkey and Persia. Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan -- Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia -- Loquacious women I: staging the Orient -- Loquacious women II: narrating the Orient -- Speculative men I: spies and correspondents -- Speculative men II: court secrets -- 'Fabulous and romantic': the 'Embassy Letters' and 'The Sultan's Tale' -- 'Bearing Confucius' morals to Britannia's ears': China. Tourandocte: the riddling princess -- Chinese whispers -- Orphans and absolutism: tragedies of state -- Empire of Dulness -- Narrative transmigrations -- Chinese letters of reason -- Madness and civilization -- 'Dreams of men awake': India. Canzade: the illusory sati -- India as illusion -- 'The dreaming Priest': Aureng-Zebe -- The treasures of the East: Indian tales -- Tales of India: weaving illusions -- The Indian fable: rational animals -- Waking from the dream -- Epilogue: romantic revisions of the Orient.
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The first book-length study of the oriental tale in England since 1908, Fabulous Orients is an original work of criticism which illustrates the centrality of narratives of and from the eastern territories of Turkey, Persia, China, and India in the formation of the novel and constructions of western identity in a culture on the threshold of empire. - ;Narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the eig.
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English literature-- Asian influences.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
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Exoticism in literature.
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Orientalism in literature.
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Asie dans la littérature.
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Exotisme dans la littérature.
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Littérature anglaise-- Influence asiatique.
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Littérature anglaise-- 16e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature anglaise-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature anglaise-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Moyen-Orient dans la littérature.
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Orient dans la littérature.
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Orientalisme dans la littérature.
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English literature-- Asian influences.
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English literature-- Early modern.
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English literature.
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Exoticism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Orientalism in literature.
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Asia, In literature.
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Middle East, In literature.
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Orient, In literature.
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Asia, Orient.
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Asia.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/3256
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| LC Classification
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PR129.A78B35 2005eb
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