Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Reveal[s] eighteenth-century scholars' continuing interest in the ways English readers and writers assimilated, re-imagined, and wrote tales from and about the rest of the world." --Elizabeth Wanning Harries, Smith College
"Ballaster's splendid study of the nature and impact of the oriental tale on the development of English prose fiction during the eighteenth century is surely destined to acieve classic status."--Gerald MacLean, Univerisy of York