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Exoticism in the enlightenment
Title
Exoticism in the enlightenment / edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter.
ISBN
0719026776
Published
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1989, c1990.
Physical Description
x, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter
The mysteries of Islam / Ian Richard Netton
Taming the exotic : the British and India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / P.J. Marshall
Ad majorem societas gloriam : Jesuit perspectives on Chinese mores in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Basil Guy
Noble and ignoble savages / V.G. Kiernan
The exotic as erotic : Captain Cook at Tahiti / Roy Porter
The discrete charms of the exotic : fictions of the harem in eighteenth-century France / Suzanne Rodin Pucci
Elegancy and wildness : reflections of the East in the eighteenth-century imagination / Frances Mannaker
Psalmanazar's "Formosa" and the British reader (including Samuel Johnson / Robert Adams Day.
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