The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century (Registro nro. 118526)
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| LC control number | 08003276 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Conant, Martha Pike, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1868-1930 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Columbia University studies in comparative literature |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-01-29 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century" by Martha Pike Conant is a scholarly monograph in comparative literature written in the early 20th century. It traces how “oriental” and pseudo‑oriental fiction took shape in eighteenth‑century England—largely through French translations and imitations—within the wider shift from classicism toward Romanticism. The study highlights pivotal works such as the Arabian Nights, Johnson’s Rasselas, Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World, and Beckford’s Vathek, organizing the corpus into imaginative, moralistic, philosophic, and satiric strands. It offers an analytic survey supported by a chronological table, notes, and a substantial bibliography.<br/><br/>The opening of this monograph lays out its aim and limits—eschewing source‑hunting in Eastern languages to focus on English reception and French mediation—defines “oriental,” and sets the period from the English emergence of the Arabian Nights to the appearance of Vathek, distinguishing this phase from later scholarly Orientalism. After sketching earlier European and English antecedents, it mirrors the French craze (Galland, Pétis de la Croix, Perrault) and proposes four English groupings. Chapter I then surveys the “imaginative” tales: it analyzes the Arabian Nights (frame‑tale, magical atmosphere, vivid incident, weak characterization), contrasts it with the more sentimental and fantastical Persian Tales (Thousand and One Days), and outlines the satiric Sendebar‑based Turkish Tales. It reviews a wave of pseudo‑translations (Three Princes of Serendip; Gueullette’s Chinese/Mogul/Tartarian collections), notes their extravagance and European borrowings, and shows how Bignon’s Abdalla and Gueullette’s imagery fed Beckford. It touches minor currents—lingering heroic romances, realistic travel/captivity pieces, and “oriental eclogues” by Collins, Chatterton, and Scott—then treats Charoba (the source of Landor’s Gebir). The section culminates in an extended reading of Vathek, praising the Hall of Eblis for its sustained terror and rich oriental color while faulting the book’s mockery, sensuality, and thin characterization, and situating it as a brilliant synthesis rather than an anomaly. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Columbia University Press, 1908 |
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| Uncontrolled term | English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism |
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| Uncontrolled term | English literature -- Asian influences |
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| Uncontrolled term | Orient -- In literature |
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| Uncontrolled term | Orientalism in literature |
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| Uncontrolled term | Oriental literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism |
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| Uniform title | Columbia University studies in comparative literature |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/orientaltaleinen00conauoft/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/orientaltaleinen00conauoft/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77806">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77806</a> |
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