# The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century

Author: Conant, Martha Pike, 1868-1930

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

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77806

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Oriental+tale+in+England+in+the+eighteenth+century+Conant&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 tendency of which these apparently isolated works were the best manifestations—a tendency itself a part of the larger movement of English Romanticism. By “the oriental tale in England” I mean all the oriental and pseudo-oriental fiction—chiefly prose—that appeared in English, whether written originally in English or translated from the French. Much of the fiction I shall consider deserves distinctly to be called pseu...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oriental-tale-in-england-in-the-eighteenth-century-77806/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oriental-tale-in-england-in-the-eighteenth-century-77806/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oriental-tale-in-england-in-the-eighteenth-century-77806/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oriental-tale-in-england-in-the-eighteenth-century-77806/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oriental-tale-in-england-in-the-eighteenth-century-77806/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-oriental-tale-in-england-in-the-eighteenth-century-77806/chapters/1/index.md)