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Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Schmidt is the Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington and author of several books, including the prize-winning Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World. Klappentext Benjamin Schmidt is the Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington and author of several books, including the prize-winning Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World.Lavishly illustrated and impressively interdisciplinary, Inventing Exoticism narrates a vital chapter in the history of European exoticism and Europe's perception of its place in the world. It traces the production and consumption of early modern exotic imagery to elucidate processes of cultural mediation in an earlier age of empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction. On the Invention of Exoticism and the Invention of Europe Chapter 1. Printing the World: Processed Books and Exotic Stereotypes Chapter 2. Seeing the World: Visuality and Exoticism Chapter 3. Exotic Bodies: Sex and Violence Abroad Chapter 4. Exotic Pleasures: Geography, Material Arts, and the "Agreeable" World Epilogue. From Promiscuous Assemblage to Order and Method: Europe and Its Exotic Worlds Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
