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Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
Dreaming of East Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
Author: Barbara Hodgson
When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu?s account of her journey helped bring the region into the Western world?s consciousness, and by the 1800s, the vogue for Orientalia had overtaken a continen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781553652045
ISBN-10: 1553652045
Publication Date: 7/29/2006
Pages: 192
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Greystone Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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