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The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Culture: A Reconsideration
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Piya Pal-Lapinski, University Press of New England (Creator)
Since the first reports of travelers returning from visits to the Ottoman and Mughal empires, European culture has been obsessed by the figure of the odalisque. The term initially used to describe a woman living in a Turkish harem or Indian zenana, gradually broadened to include and connect various iconographies of the exotic woman in the West. ...
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