Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… of their acquaintance. Such an integration of exoticism into domestic forms of sociability can be explained with David Hume ’s theory of taste according to which those ‘who can enlarge their view to contemplate distant nations and remote … In this encounter between East and West, mixing up categories of sociability, refinement of taste is achieved by what Hume calls the ‘interposition’ of ideas, the interposition of cultures. 9 . David Hume, Four Dissertations (London: A. Miller, 1757), p. 203. Eighteenth-Century Turquerie as an orientalizing and freeing …
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