{"product_id":"critical-terrains-french-and-british-orientalisms-9780801425790","title":"Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lisa Lowe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining 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\u003c\/b\u003e. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's \u003ci\u003eTurkish Embassy Letters \u003c\/i\u003eand Montesquieu's \u003ci\u003eLettres persanes\u003c\/i\u003e and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's \u003ci\u003ePassage to India\u003c\/i\u003e and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal \u003ci\u003eTel Quel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46893627932823,"sku":"9780801425790","price":7172.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801425790.webp?v=1770317709","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/critical-terrains-french-and-british-orientalisms-9780801425790","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}