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Mobile Bildinventare in Jean-François Regnards Pastiche La Provençale Eine ‚missglückte‘ Grand Tour im intermedialen Spannungsfeld von Freibeuterei, Galanterie und Orientalismus Daniel Winkler Abstract Early modern Barbary Coast literature has often been discussed as a subgenre of the travel narrative. By focusing on ‘autobiographic’ reports of Northern European and American travellers, this research was frequently interested in questions of ‘authentic’ experiences of abduction and enslavement in Northern Africa. My contribution, “Mobile image inventories in Jean-François Regnard’s pastiche The Provencal”, takes a slightly different approach. I argue that with The Provencal, written in the late 17th century and published in 1731, Regnard creates an extremely dense, intermedial, satirical text. It is shaped not only by Barbary Coast topoi but by a great variety of popular cultural and literary traditions. By referring especially to late 17th-century France, the pastiche is shaped by various intermedial references, which can be understood as a differentiated mobile inventory of images. Mediterranean novella traditions and Orientalist trends, conventions from French classic theatre and the gallant novels of the salonnières, and several self-referential reflections provide a basis for a deeply hybrid and satirical pastiche. Keywords Mobile Bildinventare, Early Modern Barbary Coast Literature, Orientalismus, Jean- François Regnard, Pastiche DOI 10.25364/08.6:2020.1.14 Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 6 2020, 219–240 Open Access: content is licensed under CC BY 3.0