The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century
The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century, published by Columbia University Press in 1908, is Martha Pike Conant's study of the vogue for stories set in the East that followed the French translation of the Arabian Nights. Conant sorts the English tales into four groups: imaginative stories of wonder and magic, such as Beckford's Vathek; moralistic tales in the manner of Addison and Johnson's Rasselas; philosophic tales; and satiric ones, such as Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, which used an Eastern visitor to mock English society. A final chapter weighs their literary value, and appendices give a chronological table and a bibliography. It remains a useful map of the subject. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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