English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism

The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century

Conant, Martha Pike, 1868-1930· 6 chapters· 64,285 words

In a study of the oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century, the high lights fall upon the _Arabian Nights_, Dr. Johnson’s _Rasselas_, Goldsmith’s _Citizen of the World_, and Beckford’s _Vathek_. The present volume aims to depict clearly the interesting orientalizing...

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1. CHAPTER V

In a study of the oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century, the high lights fall upon the _Arabian Nights_, Dr. Johnson’s _Rasselas_, Goldsmith’s _Citizen of the World...

2. CHAPTER I

Of all the wide lands open to the wandering imagination none has a more perennial charm than the mysterious East. To that magical country the _Arabian Nights_, ever since its fi...

3. CHAPTER II

If among the imaginative tales there are some that approach the moralistic, on the other hand there are among the moralistic tales at least three thoroughly imaginative. Two are...

4. CHAPTER III

The Philosophic Group of oriental tales is in number far smaller and in literary value far more considerable than the Moralistic. Here, again, Addison was the guide, using sever...

5. CHAPTER IV

In France satire used the oriental tale seriously for the purpose of criticizing contemporary society, morals, and politics; but also turned its criticism against the oriental t...

6. CHAPTER V

Upon a general survey of the four groups of oriental tales described in the preceding chapters, one is impressed by the exceedingly diversified nature of the collection, and—par...