Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms

Author/Contributor(s):	Lowe, Lisa
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	08/15/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy...