Fabulous orients [[electronic resource] ] : fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785 / / Ros Ballaster

• Autore: Ballaster Rosalind
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (423 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3256
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Asian influences; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Orientalism in literature; Exoticism in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East In literature; Orient In literature; Asia In literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-392) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Fabulous orients
• ISBN: 1-280-75672-1; 0-19-151485-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458609903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II