Enlightenment Orientalism
Resisting the Rise of the Novel
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Erschienen am 31. Mai 2024
358 Seiten
978-0-226-02450-9 (ISBN)
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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.Alle Preise
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Enlightenment Orientalism - Resisting the Rise of the Novel
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Srinivas Aravamudan is professor of English, Romance studies, and inthe literature program at Duke University.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Enlightenment Orientalism
- Part One: Pseudoethnographies
- 1. Fiction/Translation/Transculturation: Marana, Behn, Galland, Defoe
- 2. Oriental Singularity: Montesquieu, Goldsmith, Hamilton
- Part Two: Transcultural Allegories
- 3. Discoveries of New Worlds, Talking Animals, and Remote Nations: Fontenelle, Bidpai, Swift, Voltaire
- 4. Libertine Orientalism: Prévost, Crébillon, Diderot
- 5. The Oriental Tale as Transcultural Allegory: Manley, Haywood, Sheridan, Smollett
- Conclusion: Sindbad and Scheherezade, or Benjamin and Joyce
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
