Faith E Beasley

Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal

François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the prevailing images of India derived from nineteenth-century "orientalism," Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France’s "Great Century."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781487502843
• ISBN-10: 1487502842
• Artikelnr.: 49346148

Autorenporträt

Faith E. Beasley is a professor of French and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reconstructing the Past 1. Communities and Conversation 2. Salons
Seraglios
and Social Networking 3. ‘Think Different:’ Fables
Philosophy
and Diversity 4. ‘La Guerre des Etoffes:’ A Taste for India