Description: The first book-length study of the oriental tale in England since 1908, Fabulous Orients is an original work of criticism which illustrates the centrality of narratives of and from the eastern territories of Turkey, Persia, China, and India in the formation of the novel and constructions of western identity in a culture on the threshold of empire.
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"Rich and wide-ranging account of Restoration and eighteenth-century fictions of the East... Critically adroit and historically nuanced... brilliant discussions"--Tom Keymer
"A very welcome addition to the available scholarship"--T.H Barrett, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
"Rich and wide-ranging account of Restoration and eighteenth-century fictions of the East... Critically adroit and historically nuanced... brilliant discussions"--Tom Keymer
"A thorough and well-researched work of literary criticism." --The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography