Fabulous Orients

1. NARRATIVE MOVES 1.1 Dinarzade, the second string 1.2 The state of narrative 2. SHAPE SHIFTING: ORIENTAL TALES 2.1 Fadlallah and Zemroude, transmigratory desires 2.2 The framed sequence 2.3 Travellers' tales 2.4 Fictional letters 2.5 Histories 2.6 Heroic drama 2.7 A passion for tales 3. TALES OF THE SERAGLIO: TURKEY AND PERSIA 3.1 Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan 3.2 Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia 3.3 Loquacious women I: staging the Orient 3.4 Loquacious women II: narrating the Orient 3.5 Speculative men I: spies and correspondents 3.6 Speculative men II: court secrets 3.7 'Fabulous and Romantic': the Embassy Letters and the Sultan's Tale 4. 'BEARING CONFUCIUS' MORALS TO BRITANNIA'S EARS': CHINA 4.1 Turandocte: the riddling princess 4.2 Chinese whispers 4.3 Orphans and absolutism: tragedies of state 4.4 Empires of Dulness 4.5 Narrative transmigrations 4.6 Chinese letters of reason 4.7 Madness and civilization 5. 'DREAMS OF MEN AWAKE': INDIA 5.1 Canzade: the illusory sati 5.2 India as illusion 5.3 'The dreaming priest': Aureng-Zebe 5.4 The treasures of the East: Indian tales 5.5 Tales of India: weaving illusions 5.6 The Indian fable: rational animals 5.7 Waking from the dream 6. EPILOGUE: ROMANTIC REVISIONS OF THE ORIENT

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