Fables of the East: Selected Tales 1662-1785

by Ros Ballaster

Book Overview

Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide textual examples of representations of oriental cultures in the early modern period drawn from a variety of genres: travel writing, histories, and fiction. Organized according to genre in order to illustrate the diverse shapes the oriental tale adopted in the period, the extracts cover the popular sequence of oriental tales, the pseudo-oriental tale, travels and history, and letter fictions. Authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199267359
• ISBN13: 9780199267354
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"