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A Taste for the Foreign examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyot's 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story to Antoine Galland's early eighteenth-century version of The Thousand and One Nights. Concentrating on the most successful examples of some of the most important sub-genres of prose fiction in the long seventeenth century-heroic romances, shorter urban novels, fictional memoirs, and extraordinary voyages-the book examines how these types of fiction creatively appropriate the scientific or documentary forms of writing that claimed to inform the French public about exotic places.
Contents
Chapter 1 IntroductionCommodities, and the Novel Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Fiction and the Aesthetics of Foreignness Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Armchair Conquests: Heroic Romance and the Cartographies of Desire Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Cosmopolitan Seductions: City Guides and Parisian Novels Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Secret Agents, Foreign Courts: International Voyeurism in Memoir Fictions Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Consuming Curiosities in Extraordinary Voyage Novels Chapter 7 Epilogue: L'utile et l'agreable in the Age of Orientalism



