Fabulous Orients Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 [Paperback]

1. Narrative moves
1.1. Dinarzade, the second string
1.2. The state of narrative
2. Shape shifting: oriental tales
2.1. Fadlallah and Zemroude, transmigratory desires
2.2. The framed sequence
2.3. Travellers' tales
2.4. Fictional letters
2.5. Histories
2.6. Heroic drama
2.7. A passion for tales
3. Tales of the seraglio: Turkey and Persia
3.1. Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan
3.2. Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia
3.3. Loquacious women I: staging the Orient
3.4. Loquacious women II: narrating the Orient
3.5. Speculative men I: spies and correspondents
3.6. Speculative men II: court secrets
3.7. 'Fabulous and Romantic': the Embassy Letters and the Sultan's Tale
4. 'Bearing Confucius' morals to Britannia's ears': China
4.1. Turandocte: the riddling princess
4.2. Chinese whispers
4.3. Orphans and absolutism: tragedies of state
4.4. Empires of Dulness
4.5. Narrative transmigrations
4.6. Chinese letters of reason
4.7. Madness and civilization
5. 'Dreams of men awake': India
5.1. Canzade: the illusory sati
5.2. India as illusion
5.3. 'The dreaming priest': Aureng-Zebe
5.4. The treasures of the East: Indian tales
5.5. Tales of India: weaving illusions
5.6. The Indian fable: rational animals
5.7. Waking from the dream
6. Epilogue: Romantic revisions of the Orient