EXAMINING AND HISTORICIZING THE CONCEPT OF "OTHERNESS" IN BOTH LITERATURE AND CRITICISM, LISA LOWE EXPLORES REPRESENTATIONS OF NON-EUROPEAN CULTURES IN BRITISH AND FRENCH WRITINGS FROM THE EIGHTEENTH THROUGH THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's _Turkish Embassy Letters _and Montesquieu's _Lettres persanes_ and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's _Passage to India_ and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal _Tel Quel_.