Key works on the oriental tale. Recommended references

A short bibliography of modern critical works By Ros Ballaster Aravamudan, Srinivas, Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012) Ballaster, Ros (2005). Fabulous Orient. Fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785 (Oxford: Oxford University Press) ---- (2005). Fables of the East. Selected Tales 1662-1785 (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Pike Conant, Martha (1908). The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press) Watt, Jim (2008), ‘Orientalism and Empire’, in The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period, eds. Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 129-142. Warner, Marina, Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights (London: Chatto and Windus, 2011).