Exoticism in the enlightenment / edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter.

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1990], ©1990.

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Copy 1. Dedication from Roy Porter on front endpaper.

Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Gift

Introduction / G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter -- The mysteries of Islam / Ian Richard Netton -- Taming the exotic : the British and India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / P.J. Marshall -- Ad majorem societas gloriam : Jesuit perspectives on Chinese mores in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Basil Guy -- Noble and ignoble savages / V.G. Kiernan -- The exotic as erotic : Captain Cook at Tahiti / Roy Porter -- The discrete charms of the exotic : fictions of the harem in eighteenth-century France / Suzanne Rodin Pucci -- Elegancy and wildness : reflections of the East in the eighteenth-century imagination / Frances Mannaker -- Psalmanazar's "Formosa" and the British reader (including Samuel Johnson / Robert Adams Day.