Enlightenment Orientalism: resisting the rise of the novel

Introduction: Enlightenment orientalism

Part 1: Pseudoethnographies. Fiction/translation/transculturation : Marana, Behn, Galland, Defoe ; Oriental singularity : Montesquieu, Goldsmith, Hamilton

Part 2: Transcultural allegories. Discoveries of new worlds, talking animals, and remote nations : Fontenelle, Bidpai, Swift, Voltaire ; Libertine orientalism : Prévost, Crébillon, Diderot ; The oriental tale as transcultural allegory : Manley, Haywood, Sheridan, Smollett

Conclusion: Sindbad and Scheherezade, or Benjamin and Joyce.