Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century

<p>Originally published in 1906 this book examines the oriental tale in England meaning it considers all the oriental and pseudo-oriental fiction that appeared in English whether written in English or translater from the French. The highlights fall upon the <em>Arabian Nights</em> Dr. Johnson's <em>Rasselas</em> Goldsmith's <em>Citizen of the World</em> and Beckford's <em>Vathek </em>and the presnet volume aims to depict clearly the interesting orientalizing tendency of which these apparently isolated works were the best manifestations - a tendency itself a part of the larger movement of English Romanticism.</p>