Orientalism in Susanna Rowson's "Slaves in Algiers"

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: When Susanna Haswell Rowson wrote her play “Slaves in Algiers” in 1794, many people in America and Europe were fascinated by stories about the Orient. The exotic tales from faraway countries with strange animals, hot deserts, magnificent palac...