Fables of the East Selected Tales 1662-1785

by Ballaster, Ros

• ISBN13: 9780199267354
• ISBN10: 0199267359
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide texts representing oriental cultures across a variety of genres from the early modern period. Organized by genre to illustrate the diverse forms the oriental tale adopted in the period, the extracts cover the popular sequence of oriental tales, the pseudo-oriental tale, travels and history, and letter fictions. Ros Ballaster has collected the work of familiar authors - Joseph Addison, Horace Walpole, Montesquieu, Oliver Goldsmith - as well as those little-known to today's reader but of enormous popularity in their own time such as James Ridley, Alexander Dow, and Eliza Haywood."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Born in Bombay, India, in 1962, Ros Ballaster has had an abiding interest in eastern culture and narrative. She was a visiting Fellow at Harvard University 1988-89; Lecturer in English Literature at University of East Anglia 1989-1993; and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2000-2003. She is currently College and University Fellow in English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Textual Note	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
The Framed Sequence	13	(88)
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, `translated' by Antoine Galland (1704--1715)	15	(28)
`The Fable of the Mouse, that was Changed into a Little Girl' from The Fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699)	43	(6)
`The History of Commladeve' from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768)	49	(22)
`The Adventures of Urad' from James Ridley, Tales of the Genii (1764)	71	(30)
The Pseudo-Oriental Tale	101	(38)
`The History of the Christian Eunuch' from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1727)	103	(17)
Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 17 October 1712	120	(6)
Horace Walpole, `Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale' from Hieroglyphic Tales (1785)	126	(13)
Travels and History	139	(66)
`A Voyage to Kachemire, the Paradise of Indostan' from Francois Bernier, A Continuation of the Memoires of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oldenburg (1672)	141	(34)
From The General History of the Mogol Empire, compiled by Francois Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709)	175	(16)
From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W---y M---e (1763)	191	(14)
Letter Fictions	205	(64)
From Giovanni Paolo Marana, The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687--1694)	207	(32)
From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian Letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722)	239	(19)
From Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World (1762)	258	(11)
Glossary	269