1. Introduction–Christa Knellwolf and Iain McCalman
2. The Exotic Frontier of the Imperial Imagination–Christa Knellwolf
3. The Exotic and the Creative Imagination in the 1690s: Charles Perrault’s Les Hommes illustres–D. J. Culpin
4. Measuring the Marvelous: Science and the Exotic in William Dampier–Geraldine Barnes and Adrian Mitchell
5. The Exotic and the Normative in Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle Terre Australi Incognite by Zaccaria Seriman–Suzanne Kiernan
6. “Distance Getting Close”: Gesture, Language, and Space in the Pacific–David Paxman
7. “Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed”: Popular Ethnography and Enlightened Imperialism–Lisa O’Connell
8. Caribbean Borderland: Empire, Ethnicity, and the Exotic on the Mosquito Coast–Nicholas Rogers
9. Western Influences on the Ottoman Empire and Occidentalism in the Architecture of Istanbul–Ali Uzay Peker
10. Goethe’s Fantasies about the Orient–Walter Veit
11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Exotic Botany–Alexandra Cook
12. Losing America and Finding Australia: Continental Shift in an Enlightenment Paradigm–Glynis Ridley
13. French Encounters with Material Culture of the South Pacific–John Patrick Greene