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| | England and the East in James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan |
 | | When Hajji Baba appeared in 1824, good judges of fiction, among them Sir Walter Scott, immediately recognized it as a fine piece of picaresque literature, worthy to be compared with Gil Blas, the masterpiece that had suggested to Morier the mould into which to pour his knowledge of the East (14). |
 | | Hajji Baba stands in a class with Warburton's The Crescent and the Cross, Lane's Modern Egyptians, Curzon's Monasteries of the Levant, and Kinglake's Eothen (30). |
 | | Hajji Baba celebrates the luxury and wealth of the East; it portrays allusions and images of special signif-icance to the East presented in a comprehensive power in support of a political theory in service of militarily, econo-mically, and historically unified and powerful Europe. |
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