Fables Of The East: Selected Tales 1662-1785 - 9780199267347

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.

• | Edited By: Ros (Fellow In English Literature, Mansfield College, Oxford University) Ballaster
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 20, 2005
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 286 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0199267340
• | ISBN-13: 9780199267347