Enlightenment Hospitality: Cannibals, Harems and Adoption

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Hospitality, in particular hospitality to strangers, was promoted in the eighteenth century as a universal human virtue, but writing of the period reveals many telling examples of its abuse. Through analysis of encounters across cultural and sexual divides, Judith Still revisits the current debate about the social, moral and political values of the Enlightenment.

Focussing on (in)hospitality in relation to two kinds of exotic Other, Judith...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0729410102

ISBN13:9780729410106

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Voltaire Foundation

Length:320 Pages

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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