The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century

Name: The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century
Author: Conant, Martha Pike

Conant, Martha Pike

English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Asian influences; Orient -- In literature; Oriental literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism; Orientalism in literature

and by the authorities of the Columbia University Library, especially
Mr. Frederic W. Erb. For assistance in research at the British Museum I
would thank my sister, Charlotte H. Conant; for similar work at Harvard
and in the Boston Libraries, Miss Mary H. Buckingham. Miss Buckingham
enriched my initial bibliography by examining the entire _Catalogue of
Printed Books_ of the British Museum. Finally, to Dr. Duncan B.
Macdonald and Dr. Edward Everett Hale I wish to express my appreciation
of their kindness in lending me valuable books.

The Appendices to the present volume comprise _Appendix A, Notes_,
chiefly concerning the indebtedness of Byron and others to the oriental
tales; and _Appendix B, I._, a _Chronological Table_, giving full titles
of the oriental tales considered, and _II._, a _Bibliography_ of the
books of reference most useful in a study of this subject. Each book in
_Appendix B, I._ and _II._, is numbered, and will be referred to in
footnotes by number when it is unnecessary to cite the full title;
_e.g._ in the footnote on p. 2, “Cf. App. B, I., No. 4, p. 269,”
reference is made to the full title of the earliest known edition of the
_Arabian Nights_, as given on p. 269. The date following the first
mention of an oriental tale is, unless otherwise specified, the date of
the first English edition, _e.g._ on p. 13, “1714” following “the
_Persian Tales_ or the _Thousand and One Days_.” Complete lists of the
oriental tales by the eighteenth-century essayists will be found in App.
B, I., _e.g._ No. 11, pp. 271, 272, _Addison_. Unknown essayists are
grouped, _e.g._ No. 12, p. 272.

                                                                M. P. C.

 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
     June, 1907.




                                CONTENTS


                                                   PAGE
                INTRODUCTION                         xv
                               CHAPTER I
                THE IMAGINATIVE GROUP                 1
                              CHAPTER II
                THE MORALISTIC GROUP                 73
                              CHAPTER III
                THE PHILOSOPHIC GROUP               112
                              CHAPTER IV
                THE SATIRIC GROUP                   155
                               CHAPTER V
                LITERARY ESTIMATE                   226
                APPENDIX A. NOTES                   257
                APPENDIX B. I. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE  267
                APPENDIX B. II. BOOKS OF REFERENCE  294
                INDEX                               307




                              INTRODUCTION

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