Fables of the East Selected Tales 1662-1785 |
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| Editor:
| Ballaster, Ros |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-926735-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2005 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $48.99 |
Book Description:
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Fables of the East contains a selection of the travel and fictional texts which transported eighteenth-century readers to the exciting and exotic territories of Mughal India, Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia and Confucian China. This anthology illustrates the enduring influence of oriental narrative in the formation of the novel in early modern Europe.
Fables of the East contains a selection of the travel and fictional texts which transported eighteenth-century readers to the exciting and exotic territories of Mughal India, Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Persia and Confucian China. This anthology illustrates the enduring influence of oriental narrative in the formation of the novel in early modern Europe.