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Romantic Orientalisms
2013
Overview
Well before the Romantic era, British writers found it worth their while to mine exotic romances from the East. The Frenchman Antoine Galland started the fashion for such literary Orientalism withMille et une nuit(1704–17), translated from Arabic and Englished by 1706 asThe Thousand and One Nights. Its popularity brought plenty of imitations to Britain’s expanding print market: Turkish, Persian, Chinese, ‘Mogul’ and ‘Tartarian’ tales. British and French authors used Eastern tales as vehicles for social, political and philosophical comment, from Voltaire and Montesquieu to Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson (Richardson 2002: 4–5). But Britain’s commercial
