03072nam 2200673 a 450 991045860990332120200520144314.01-280-75672-10-19-151485-3(CKB)1000000000402342(EBL)422507(OCoLC)476257604(SSID)ssj0000152709(PQKBManifestationID)11150630(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000152709(PQKBWorkID)10391448(PQKB)10318831(MiAaPQ)EBC422507(Au-PeEL)EBL422507(CaPaEBR)ebr10233767(CaONFJC)MIL75672(EXLCZ)99100000000040234220050713d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFabulous orients[electronic resource] fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785 /Ros BallasterOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (423 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-926733-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-392) and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1. NARRATIVE MOVES; 2. SHAPE-SHIFTING: ORIENTAL TALES; 3. TALES OF THE SERAGLIO: TURKEY AND PERSIA; 4. 'BEARING CONFUCIUS' MORALS TO BRITANNIA'S EARS': CHINA; 5. 'DREAMS OF MEN AWAKE': INDIA; 6. EPILOGUE: ROMANTIC REVISIONS OF THE ORIENT; Bibliography; IndexThe 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 eigEnglish literatureAsian influencesEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismOrientalism in literatureExoticism in literatureMiddle EastIn literatureOrientIn literatureAsiaIn literatureElectronic books.English literatureAsian influences.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Orientalism in literature.Exoticism in literature.820.9/3256Ballaster Rosalind168414MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458609903321Fabulous orients783504UNINA