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O’Quinn, Daniel. “Tears in Tehran/Laughter in London: James Morier, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan, and the Geopolitics of Emotion.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 25, no. 1 (Fall 2012): 85-114.

Pandit, Pallavi. "Orientalist Discourse and Its Literary Representations in the Works of Four British Travel Writers: James Morier, Alexander Kinglake, Richard Burton, and Gertrude Bell." PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1990.

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