TY  - GEN
T1  - Cultural encounters with the Arabian Nights in nineteenth-century Britain
T2  - Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
A1  - Dickson, Melissa (Of University of Birmingham)
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1128367621
AB  - 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.
CN  - PR468.O74 D53 2019eb
SN  - 9781474443661
SN  - 1474443664
SN  - 1474443648
SN  - 9781474443647
SN  - 9781474477055
SN  - 1474477054
SN  - 9781474443678
SN  - 1474443672
KW  - Tales : Arabian Peninsula.
KW  - Popular culture and literature : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Contes : Arabie (Péninsule)
KW  - Culture populaire et littérature : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
KW  - Popular culture and literature
KW  - Tales
KW  - Arabian Peninsula
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -