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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Still has a way of rendering her enthusiasm consistently contagious over the course of this encyclopedic study […] Still draws and builds on her prior work and deftly weaves analysis of gendered, sexual, and economic questions into her syntheses of themes.’
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Eighteenth Century Fiction 25, no. 1‘In addition to being historical and critical, Still’s argument is methodological […] she does not repeat the rhetorical triangle of self-critique or the self-justifying comparison so common to Enlightenment discourses on hospitality. It is this that makes her study thickly post-colonial and feminist: instead of engaging in a guilt-driven Enlightenment critique, Still disentangles Enlightenment voices and power relations and reveals who is allowed to speak and who is silenced in the operating mechanisms of Enlightenment (in) hospitality.’
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Intellect Ltd Reviews, Hospitality and Society, Vol 2 no. 1Table of Contents1. Introducing Enlightenment hospitality
2. The New World: received as gods
3. The New World: eating the other
4. Enlightenment Persia
5. Turkish travels: hospitable harems and good guests
6. The other as guest: the special case of adoption and sexual predation
7. Revolution and rights
Concluding questions: now and then
Bibliography
Index
