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.
- ISBN10 1283014408
- ISBN13 9781283014403
- Publish Date 1 January 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint University of Delaware Press
- Format eBook
- Language English