Bøker av Faith E. Beasley

Challenging the prevailing images of India derived from nineteenth-century "orientalism," Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France's "Great Century."

Through her analysis of how the seventeenth century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, the author illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past. The author argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole.