A Taste for the ForeignA Taste for the Foreign examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyots 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story to Antoine Gallands early eighteenth century version of The Thousand and One Nights. While fantastic storylines and elements of magic were increasingly shunned by a neo classicist literary culture that valued verisimilitude above all else, writers and critics surmised that the