Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel

by Srinivas Aravamudan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226024482
• ISBN13: 9780226024486
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"