1 option
Versailles meets the Taj Mahal : François Bernier, Marguerite de La Sablière, and enlightening conversations in seventeenth-century France / Faith E. Beasley.
LIBRA PQ245 .B43 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beasley, Faith Evelyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bernier, François, 1620-1688.
- Bernier, François.
- La Sablière, Marguerite de, 1640?-1693.
- La Sablière, Marguerite de.
- French literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Orientalism--France--History--17th century.
- Orientalism.
- Salons--France--History--17th century.
- Salons.
- Enlightenment--France.
- Enlightenment.
- Civilization.
- History.
- France.
- France--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Intellectual life.
- India--Civilization--Influence.
- India.
- France--Civilization--Indic influences.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 349 pages,16 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 Worldly Encounters: Communities and Conversation 29
- "Un esprit extraordinaire" 32
- Food for Conversation: Bernier's Travels 48
- Conversing with/about Colbert 71
- Remapping the Mind: Landscapes and Cultural Relativism 81
- 2 Salons, Seraglios, and Social Networking 91
- Engaging the Salon Public: Bernier's Particular History 103
- Nurjahan 111
- Jahanara and Raushanara: Mughal Models 119
- The Zenana: "Plus indispensable qu'on ne saurait presque croire" 125
- "Une canne des Indes fort extraordinaire" 135
- Dryden's Aurcng-Zebe: A Different Conversation 158
- 3 Penser autrement: Fables, Philosophy, and Diversity 170
- Religious Diversity and French Thought 174
- Inspiring Thought: Bernier and Diversity 184
- La Fontaine: Deriving Wisdom from Diversity 195
- Fontenelle: A Conversation between and of Different Worlds 211
- 4 Indian Taste, A Taste for India 222
- Importing Taste: Le goût féminin et la guerre des étoffes 233
- Transforming Taste: Diamonds and Political Capital 250
- Directing Taste: Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme 259
- Reflecting Grandeur: Mirroring India 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1487502842
- 9781487502843
- OCLC:
- 1004576816
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.