Inventing exoticism : geography, globalism, and Europe's early modern world
Benjamin Schmidt (Author)
Lavishly illustrated and impressively interdisciplinary, Inventing Exoticism narrates a vital chapter in the history of European exoticism and Europe's perception of its place in the world. It traces the production and consumption of early modern exotic imagery to elucidate processes of cultural mediation in an earlier age of empire.
Print Book, English, 2015
PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2015
XIX, 412 pagina's, 16 ongenummerde pagina's platen : illustraties ; 26 cm.
9780812246469, 0812246462
904546129
List of IllustrationsIntroduction. On the Invention of Exoticism and the Invention of EuropeChapter 1. Printing the World: Processed Books and Exotic StereotypesChapter 2. Seeing the World: Visuality and ExoticismChapter 3. Exotic Bodies: Sex and Violence AbroadChapter 4. Exotic Pleasures: Geography, Material Arts, and the "Agreeable" WorldEpilogue. From Promiscuous Assemblage to Order and Method: Europe and Its Exotic WorldsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments