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| Additional Audio and Online Resources | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Illustration. Anonymous drawing of Louis XIV as the "Sun King" | |
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| Bishan Das (attributed to). Birth of a Prince | |
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| Guler School, Lady with a Hawk | |
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| Illuminated tughra (signature) of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent | |
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| Portrait of a Nobleman and His Wife | |
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| Marcellus Laroon, Charles II as President of the Royal Society | |
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| Carle Van Loo, Madame de Pompadour as a Sultana | |
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| Johann Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with Her Two Eldest Sons | |
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| Independence des Etats-Unis | |
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| An Army of Jugs | |
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| Map. The World in 1700 | |
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| Timeline | |
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| The World the Mughals Made | |
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| Illustration. The Taj Mahal | |
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| Map: The Mughal Empire | |
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| Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) | |
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| from The Memoirs of Babur (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston) | |
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| Jahangir (1569-1627) | |
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| from The Memoirs of Jahangir (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston) | |
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| Mirza Muhammad Rafi "Sauda" (1713-1781) | |
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| from Satires [How to Earn a Living in Hindustan] (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam) | |
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| Mir Muhammad Taqi "Mir" (1723-1810) | |
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| Selected Couplets (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam) | |
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| from The Autobiography (trans. C. M. Naim) | |
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| Banarasidas (mid-17th century) | |
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| from Half a Tale (trans. Mukund Lath) | |
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| Chikamatsu Mon'Zaemon (1653-1725) | |
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| Illustration. Puppeteers performing The Love Suicides at Amijima | |
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| The Love Suicides at Amijima (trans. Donald Keene) | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Chikamatsu on the Art of Puppet Theatre (trans. Michael Brownstein) | |
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| Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-1763) | |
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| from The Story of the Stone (trans. David Hawkes) | |
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| Resonance | |
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| from Six Records of a Floating Life (trans. Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui) | |
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| The Ottoman Empire | |
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| Map. The Ottoman Empire, 1672 | |
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| Mihri Khatun (1445-1512) | |
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| I opened my eyes from sleep (trans. Walter Andrews et al.) | |
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| At times, my longing for the beloved slays me | |
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| My heart burns in flames of sorrow | |
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| Fuzuli (1480-1556) | |
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| Oh God, don't let anyone be like me (trans. Walter Andrews et al.) | |
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| If my heart were a wild bird | |
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| For long years we have been haunting the quarter | |
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| The pointed reproach of the enemy | |
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| Nedim (1681-1730) | |
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| At the gathering of desire (trans. Walter Andrews et al.) | |
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| When the east wind leaves that curl | |
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| As the morning wind blows | |
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| Take yourself to the rose-garden | |
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| Delicacy was drawn out like the finest wine | |
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| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) | |
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| Illustration. Title page of Baudier's General History of the Seraglio and of the Court of the Noble Lord Emperor of the Turks | |
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| The Turkish Embassy Letters | |
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| To Alexander Pope (1 April 1717) | |
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| To Sarah Chiswell (1 April 1717) | |
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| To Lady Mar (18 April 1717) | |
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| The Age of the Enlightenment | |
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| Illustration. Execution of Louis XVI | |
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| Map. Europe in 1714, After the Treaty of Utrecht | |
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| Illustration. An Emblematical View of the Constitutions of England and France | |
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| Illustration. Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities | |
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| Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere] (1622-1673) | |
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| Tartuffe (trans. Richard Wilbur) | |
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| Perspectives: Court Culture and Female Authorship | |
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| Illustration. Art d'Ecrire | |
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| Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701) | |
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| from Clelie (trans. April Alliston) | |
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| Illustration. La Carte du pays de Tendre, from Madeline de Scudery's Clelie | |
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| Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette (1634-1693) | |
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| The Countess of Tende (trans. April Alliston) | |
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| Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne (1626-1696) | |
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| from Selected Letters (trans. Leonard Tancock) | |
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| Elisabeth Charlotte von Der Pfalz, Duchesse D'Orleans (1652-1722) | |
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| from Letters (trans. Maria Kroll) | |
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| Katherine Philips (1631-1664) | |
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| To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship | |
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| An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage | |
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| Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710) | |
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| from The Ladies Defence | |
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| Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) | |
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| The Introduction | |
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| Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia | |
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| from The Spleen | |
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| Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | |
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| The Lady's Dressing Room | |
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| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) | |
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| The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room | |
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| Ann Yearsley (1752-1806) | |
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| To Mr. ****, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Court Culture and Female Authorship | |
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| Aphra Behn (1640-1689) | |
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| Oroonoko | |
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| Illustration. Frontispiece to Thomas Southerne's play Oroonoko: A Tragedy | |
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| Resonance | |
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| from An Impartial Description of Surinam | |
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| Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | |
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| Gulliver's Travels | |
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| Illustration. James Gillray, The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver | |
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| Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms | |
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| Perspectives: Journeys in Search of the Self | |
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| Evliya Celebi (1611-1684) | |
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| from The Book of Travels (trans. Robert Dankoff and Robert Elsie) | |
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| Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) | |
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| Illustration. Morikawa Kyoriku, haiga (haikai sketch) | |
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| [Selected Haiku] (trans. Haruo Shirane) | |
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| from Narrow Road to the Deep North (trans. Haruo Shirane) | |
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| Map. Basho's Journey | |
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| Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) | |
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| from Persian Letters (trans. J. Robert Loy) | |
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| Denis Diderot (1713-1784) | |
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| from Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (trans. John Hope Mason and Robert Wokler) | |
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| Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797) | |
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| from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
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| Map. Triangular Trade | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Journeys in Search of the Self | |
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| Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (1694-1778) | |
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| Candide (trans. Roger Pearson) | |
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| Resonances | |
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| from Theodicy (trans. E. M. Huggard) | |
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| from An Essay on Man | |
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| Translations | |
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| Voltaire's Candide | |
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| Alexander Pope (1688-1744) | |
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| The Rape of the Lock | |
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| Perspectives: Liberty and Libertines | |
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| Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) | |
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| from Life of a Sensuous Woman (trans. Chris Drake) | |
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| Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706) | |
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| from Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama (trans. Rick Fields et al.) | |
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| John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) | |
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| The Imperfect Enjoyment | |
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| A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind | |
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| Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1756) | |
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| Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) | |
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| from The Social Contract (trans. Christopher Betts) | |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) | |
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| from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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| Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) | |
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| The Rights of Woman | |
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| Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | |
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| An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (trans. Mary J. Gregor) | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Liberty and Libertines | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |