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Cultural encounters with the Arabian nights in nineteenth-century Britain / Melissa Dickson

Dickson, Melissa [Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 212 pages) : Illustrations (black and white).

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4744-7705-5 ; 978-1-47-444364-7

NO 7100 NK 5060

 

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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.