A taste for the foreign : worldly knowledge and literary pleasure in early modern French fiction

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 and Print
Publication Info	Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2011.
Description	xxviii, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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 note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2010053746
ISBN	9781611490626 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	1611490626 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PQ145.7.A2 W45 2011	✔ Available	Place Hold