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Fables of the East - Selected Tales 1662-1785 (Hardcover)
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Fables of the East - Selected Tales 1662-1785 (Hardcover)
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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 oriental tale 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 in their own time who have since faded in reputation
such as James Ridley, Alexander Dow, and Eliza Haywood. The
selection has been devised to call attention to the diversity in
the ways that different oriental cultures are represented to
English readers. Readers of this anthology will be able to identify
a contrast between the luxury, excess, and sexuality associated
with Islamic Turkey, Persia, and Mughal India and the wisdom,
restraint, and authority invested in Brahmin India and Confucian
China. Fables of the East redraws the cultural map we have
inherited of the eighteenth century, demonstrating contemporary
interest in gentile and 'idolatrous' religions, in Confucianism and
Buddhism especially, and that the construction of the Orient in the
western imagination was not exclusively one of an Islamic Near and
Middle East. Ros Ballster's introduction addresses the importance
of the idea of 'fable' to traditions of narrative and
representations of the East. Each text is accompanied by
explanatory head and footnotes, also provided is a glossary of
oriental terms and places that were familiar to the texts'
eighteenth-century readers.
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