Excerpt from The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century English in the College of the City of New York, for notes on certain oriental tales; to Dr.

Presents a study in 18th century English literature to give a clear and accurate description of a distinct component featuring Asian influences.

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth ce

Orientalism and Literature discusses a key critical concept in literary studies and how it assists our reading of literature. It reviews the concept's evolution