A taste for the foreign : worldly knowledge and literary pleasure in early modern French fiction / Ellen R. Welch.

Author/creator Welch, Ellen R.
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxxviii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
French literature--16th century. --History and criticism.
Exoticism in literature.
French literature--17th century. --History and criticism.
National characteristics, French, in literature.
French literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
Literature and globalization--France. --History.

Contents Manufacturing foreignness: exoticism, commodities, and the novel -- Fiction and the aesthetics of foreignness -- Armchair conquests: heroic romance and the cartographies of desire -- Cosmopolitan seductions: city guides and Parisian novels -- Secret agents, foreign courts: international voyeurism in memoir fictions -- Consuming curiosities in extraordinary voyage novels -- L'utile et l'agréable in the age of orientalism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010053746
ISBN9781611490626 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611490626 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ145.7.A2 W45 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold