{"product_id":"enlightenment-orientalism-srinivas-aravamudan-9780226024486","title":"Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eSrinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Srinivas Aravamudan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226024482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226024486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2012","brand":"Srinivas Aravamudan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013707444479,"sku":"9780226024486","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_989321fb-b85a-4202-9cad-5d6fbd35ff76.jpg?v=1767744268","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enlightenment-orientalism-srinivas-aravamudan-9780226024486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}