Cultural encounters with the Arabian Nights in nineteenth-century Britain /
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 c...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs9135 |
| 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? This book identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture. It explores how this period used the stories as a means of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing environment. It also argues for a view of the 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474443661 1474443664 1474443648 9781474443647 9781474477055 1474477054 9781474443678 1474443672 |