Cultural encounters with the Arabian nights in nineteenth-century Britain
- Responsibility
- Melissa Dickson.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Copyright notice
- ©2019
- Physical description
- xii, 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Dickson, Melissa (Of University of Birmingham), author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-208) and index.
- Summary
-
Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Scheherazade winding out her intricate tales to win her nightly stay of execution: the stories of the Arabian Nights are a familiar and much-loved part of the English literary inheritance. But how did these tales become so much a part of the British cultural landscape? Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture. She explores how this period used the stories as a means of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing environment. She also argues for a view of these tales not as a depiction of otherness, but as a site of recognition and imaginative exchange between East and West, in a period when such common ground was rarely found.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2019
- Copyright date
- 2019
- Series
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
- ISBN
- 1474443648
- 9781474443647
Browse related items
Start at call number:
