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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aBeasley, Faith E. _eautore
245	1	0	_aVersailles Meets the Taj Mahal : _bFrançois Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France / _cFaith E. Beasley.
264		1	_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a1 online resource (384 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNote on Translations -- _tIntroduction -- _t1. Worldly Encounters: Communities and Conversation -- _t2. Salons, Seraglios, and Social Networking -- _t3. Penser autrement: Fables, Philosophy, and Diversity -- _t4. Indian Taste, A Taste for India -- _tAfterword -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aVersailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France’s "Great Century" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher François Bernier, this book resurrects the conversations about India inspired by Bernier’s travels and inscribed in his influential texts produced in collaboration with La Sablière’s salon. The literary works, correspondences, and philosophical texts produced by the members of this eclectic salon bear the traces of this engagement with India. Faith E. Beasley’s analysis of these conversations reveals France’s unique engagement with India during this period and challenges prevailing images derived from a nineteenth-century "orientalism" imbued with colonialism. The India encountered in La Sablière’s salon through Francois Bernier and others is not the colonized India that has come to dominate any image of the Orient. Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal adds a new chapter to literary and cultural history by adopting a new approach to the study of salon culture, exploring how texts, cultural artifacts, and patterns of thought were shaped by the collective reading and by the conversations emanating from these practices. Beasley’s analysis highlights the unique role of French salon culture in the evolution of western thought during the early modern period.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650		0	_aEnlightenment _zFrance _xHistory.
650		0	_aFrench literature _y17th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aOrientalism _zFrance _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aSalons _zFrance _xHistory _y17th century.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.3138/9781487516123
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487516123
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487516123/original
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