Three Oriental Tales: Complete Texts with Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays
by Alan Richardson (Editor)
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This engaging volume presents the complete texts of three of the most important, and historically popular, examples of the Oriental tale genre. Supporting contextual material includes samples of Orientalist writing from The Spectator, Johnson's Rambler, Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, and Edgeworth's complete tale "Murad the Unlucky," as well as a selection of modern critical essays.Tags
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Fantastic tales reflecting European beliefs and fantasies about Oriental culture and character.
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Alan Richardson is a professor of English at Boston College, author of British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind, and coeditor of The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity.
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