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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickson, Melissa (Of University of Birmingham) (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2019]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs9135