Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms

by Lisa Lowe

Book Overview

Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801425794
• ISBN13: 9780801425790
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher