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Before Orientalism : Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 / Kim M. Phillips.
LIBRA GT5240 .P55 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Kim M.
- Series:
- Middle Ages series
- The Middle Ages series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel, Medieval--History--Sources.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, European.
- History.
- Asia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Asia.
- Asia--Foreign public opinion, Western--History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 314 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Part I Theory, People, Genres
- Chapter 1 On Orientalism 15
- Chapter 2 Travelers, Tales, Audiences 28
- Chapter 3 Travel Writing and the Making of Europe 50
- Part II Envisioning Orients
- Chapter 4 Food and Foodways 73
- Chapter 5 Femininities 101
- Chapter 6 Sex 123
- Chapter 7 Civility 148
- Chapter 8 Bodies 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812245486
- 0812245482
- OCLC:
- 842880453
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