Fables of the East Selected Tales 1662-1785

"Fables of the East is the first anthology to provide texts representing oriental cultures across a variety of genres from the early modern period. Organized by genre to illustrate the diverse forms the oriental tale adopted in the period, the extracts cover the popular sequence of oriental tales, the pseudo-oriental tale, travels and history, and letter fictions. Ros Ballaster has collected the work of familiar authors - Joseph Addison, Horace Walpole, Montesquieu, Oliver Goldsmith - as well as those little-known to today's reader but of enormous popularity in their own time such as James Ridley, Alexander Dow, and Eliza Haywood."--BOOK JACKET.

Born in Bombay, India, in 1962, Ros Ballaster has had an abiding interest in eastern culture and narrative. She was a visiting Fellow at Harvard University 1988-89; Lecturer in English Literature at University of East Anglia 1989-1993; and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2000-2003. She is currently College and University Fellow in English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford.