
Enlightenment Orientalism
Resisting the Rise of the Novel
Srinivas Aravamudan(Autor*in)
University of Chicago Press
Erschienen am 8. Dezember 2011
Buch
Hardcover
360 Seiten
978-0-226-02448-6 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
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"Without question, Enlightenment Orientalism is an illuminating, persuasive, and provocative revaluation of eighteenth-century fiction." (Robert Markley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
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Chicago
USA
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The University of Chicago Press
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Höhe: 24 mm
Breite: 16 mm
Dicke: 3 mm
Gewicht
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-02448-6 (9780226024486)
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Srinivas Aravamudan is professor of English, Romance studies, and in the literature program at Duke University.