The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century
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"The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century" by Martha Pike Conant is a scholarly monograph in comparative literature written in the early 20th century. It traces how “oriental” and pseudo‑oriental fiction took shape in eighteenth‑century England—largely through French translations and imitations—within the wider shift from classicism toward Romanticism. The study highlights pivotal works such as the Arabian Nights, Johnson’s Rasselas, Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World, and Beckford’s Vathek, organizing the corpus into imaginative, moralistic, philosophic, and satiric strands. It offers an analytic survey supported by a chronological table, notes, and a substantial bibliography.
The opening of this monograph lays out its aim and limits—eschewing source‑hunting in Eastern languages to focus on English reception and French mediation—defines “oriental,” and sets the period from the English emergence of the Arabian Nights to the appearance of Vathek, distinguishing this phase f
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