Fables of the East
Selected Tales 1662-1785
Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and fiction. Organized according to genre in order to illustrate the diverse shapes the orientaltale adopted in the period, the extracts cover the popular sequence of oriental tales, the pseudo-oriental tale, travels and history, and letter fictions. Authors represented range from the familiar--Joseph Addison, Horace Walpole, Montesquieu, Oliver Goldsmith--to authors of great popularity intheir own time who have since faded in reputation such as Jame…
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Weitere Autoren: Ballaster, Rosalind (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-926735-4
- EAN: 9780199267354
- Produktnummer: 22669485
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 388 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 388
Über den Autor
Born in Bombay, India, in 1962, Ros Ballaster has had an abiding interest in eastern culture and narrative. She was a visiting Fellow at Harvard University 1988-89; Lecturer in English Literature at University of East Anglia 1989-1993; and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2000-2003. She is currently College and University Fellow in English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford.
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