1st Edition
The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century
By Martha Pike Conant
Copyright 1906
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1906, this book examines the oriental tale in England, meaning it considers all the oriental and pseudo-oriental fiction that appeared in English, whether written in English or translater from the French. The highlights fall upon the Arabian Nights, Dr. Johnson's Rasselas, Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, and Beckford's Vathek, and the presnet volume aims to depict clearly the interesting orientalizing tendency of which these apparently isolated works were the best manifestations - a tendency itself a part of the larger movement of English Romanticism.
Introduction. 1. The Imaginative Group. 2. The Moralistic Group. 3. The Philosophic Group. 4. The Satiric Group. 5. Literary Estimate.
Biography
Martha Conant Pike