{"product_id":"critical-terrains-lisa-lowe-9780801425790","title":"Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms","description":"\u003cp\u003eExamining and historicizing the concept of \"otherness\" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's \u003ci\u003eTurkish Embassy Letters \u003c\/i\u003eand Montesquieu's \u003ci\u003eLettres persanes\u003c\/i\u003e and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's \u003ci\u003ePassage to India\u003c\/i\u003e and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal \u003ci\u003eTel Quel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Lowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801425794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801425790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Lisa Lowe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120222433535,"sku":"9780801425790","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fca039bf-7b17-4bbe-b8b7-e4fafcc91b53.jpg?v=1687413176","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/critical-terrains-lisa-lowe-9780801425790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}