TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ballaster,Rosalind
ED  - Oxford University Press.
TI  - Fabulous orients: fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 
SN  - 9780199234295
AV  - PR129.A78 B35 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Civilization, Oriental, in literature
KW  - East and West
N1  - Originally published: 2005; Narrative moves. Dinarzade, the second string; -- The state of narrative; -- Shape-shifting: Oriental tales. Fadlallah and Zemroude: transmigratory desires; -- The framed sequence; -- Travellers' tales; -- Fictional letters; -- Histories; -- Heroic drama; -- A passion for tales; -- Tales of the Seraglio: Turkey and Persia. Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan; -- Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia; -- Loquacious women I: staging the Orient; -- Loquacious women II: narrating the Orient; -- Speculative men I: spies and correspondents; -- Speculative men II: court secrets; -- 'Fabulous and romantic': the 'Embassy Letters' and 'The Sultan's Tale'; -- 'Bearing Confucius' morals to Britannia's ears': China. Tourandocte: the riddling princess; -- Chinese whispers; -- Orphans and absolutism: tragedies of state; -- Empire of Dulness; -- Narrative transmigrations; -- Chinese letters of reason; -- Madness and civilization; -- 'Dreams of men awake': India. Canzade: the illusory sati; -- India as illusion; -- 'The dreaming Priest': Aureng-Zebe; -- The treasures of the East: Indian tales; -- Tales of India: weaving illusions; -- The Indian fable: rational animals; -- Waking from the dream; -- Epilogue: romantic revisions of the Orient
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