Exoticism in the enlightenment / edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter

Published:: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University, [1990]
New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press.
Copyright Date:: ©1990
Physical Description:: x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) and Porter, Roy, 1946-2002

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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.

Subject(s):

Civilization, Modern—18th century
East and West—History—18th century
Enlightenment
Exoticism in literature—History—18th century
British—Asia—History—18th century
Great Britain—Civilization—18th century

ISBN:

0719026776

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