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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Dickson, Melissa (Of University of Birmingham) (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2019]
シリーズ:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs9135
目次:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. 'For a time their world made mine': Childhood Encounters with the Arabian Nights; 2. Underground Palaces and Castles in the Air: The Realms and Ruins of the Arabian Nights; 3. The Magical Metropolis; 4. Magic and Machines at the Great Exhibition; 5. Epilogue: A New Arabian Nights; Bibliography; Index.