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Author Lowe, Lisa.

Title Critical terrains : French and British orientalisms / Lisa Lowe
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991

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Description xii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Conclusion: Orientalism Interrupted. p. 190
Index. p. 211
Works Cited. p. 201
1. Discourse and Heterogeneity: Situating Orientalism. p. 1
2. Travel Narratives and Orientalism: Montagu and Montesquieu. p. 30
3. Orient as Woman, Orientalism as Sentimentalism: Flaubert. p. 75
4. Orientalism as Literary Criticism: The Reception of E. M. Forster's Passage to India. p. 102
5. Desires of Postcolonial Orientalism: Chinese Utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel. p. 136
Summary "Examining 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 centuries."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis British History Orient
English literature Asian influences
Exoticism in literature
French literature Asian influences
French History Orient
Orient In literature
Orientalism
British - Orient - History
English literature - Asian influences
Exoticism in literature
French - Orient - History
French literature - Asian influences
Orient - In literature
Orientalism
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject British -- Travel -- Orient -- History.
British -- Orient -- History.
English literature -- Asian influences.
French literature -- Asian influences.
French literature -- Oriental influences
Exoticism in literature.
French -- Travel -- Orient -- History.
French -- Orient -- History
Orientalism.
SUBJECT Orient http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040515 -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
Orient -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108715
LC no. 91055058
ISBN 0801425794 (cloth : alk. paper)