The Persian mirror : reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France / Susan Mokhberi.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190884826 (ebook) :Subject(s): France -- Relations -- Iran | Iran -- Relations -- France | France -- Foreign relations -- Iran | Iran -- Foreign relations -- France | Travelers' writings, French -- Iran -- History and criticism | Visits of state -- France -- History -- 18th century | Iran -- History -- òSafavid dynasty, 1501-1736 | France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789 | Orientalism -- France -- History -- 18th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190884796DDC classification: 303.4824405509033 LOC classification: DC59.8.I55 | M65 2019Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'The Persian Mirror' explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's 'Persian Letters', French intellectuals, diplomats, and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction, and printed and painted images, the text describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of Orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The Persian Mirror' explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's 'Persian Letters', French intellectuals, diplomats, and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction, and printed and painted images, the text describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of Orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
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