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Domestic handicraft was an extraordinarily popular leisure activity in Victorian Britain, especially amongst middle-class women. Craftswomen pasted shells onto boxes, stitched fish scales onto silk, scorched patterns into wood, cast flower petals out of wax, and made needlework portraits of the royal spaniels. Yet despite its ubiquity, little has been written about this curious hobby. Providing a much-needed history of this under-studied phenomenon, Talia Schaffer demonstrates the importance of domestic handicraft in Victorian literature and culture. Novel Craft presents what Schaffer terms.
English fiction --- Women in literature. --- Domestic fiction, English --- Women and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry
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Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, Enlightenment Orientalism is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.
Orientalism --- Orientalism in literature. --- European fiction --- Enlightenment --- East and West --- History --- History and criticism. --- Orient --- In literature. --- enlightenment, orientalism, exotification, folklore, fairy tales, 1001 nights, ethnography, fantasy, sexuality, satire, domestic fiction, rise of the novel, literature, classics, british, 18th century, voltaire, montesquieu, diderot, france, defoe, swift, goldsmith, rationality, nation, identity, othering, nonfiction, literary theory, marana, behn, galland, hamilton, allegory, fontenelle, discovery, exploration, unknown, talking animals, bidpai, libertines, prevost, manley, sheridan, smollett, crebillon, scheherezade, sinbad, joyce, benjamin.
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