Fables of the East : selected tales, 1662-1785 / edited by Ros Ballaster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballaster, Rosalind.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fables, Oriental.

Fables.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. The anthology illustrates the enduring influence of oriental narrative in the formation of the novel in early modern Europe. - ;Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and fiction. Organized according to genre in order to illustrate the diverse

Contents:

From The Arabian nights entertainments, 'translated' by Antoine Galland (1704-1715)

'The fable of the mouse, that was changed into a little girl' from The fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699)

'The history of Commladeve' from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768)

'The adventures of Urad' from James Ridley, Tales of the genii (1764)

'The history of the Christian eunuch' from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1727)

Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 12 October 1712

Horace Walpole, 'Mi Li, a Chinese fairy tale' from Hieroglyphic tales (1785)

'A voyage to Kachemire, the paradise of Indostan' from Francois Bernier, A continuation of the memories of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oxenberg (1672)

From The general history of the Mogol Empire, compiled by Francois Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709)

From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M...y W...y M...e (1763)

From Giovanni Paolo Marana, The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1694)

From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722)

From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1762).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-75673-X

0-19-155617-3

1-4237-5713-0

OCLC:

609843656