ISBN:
9781474477055
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 212 pages)
,
Illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Series Statement:
Edinburgh scholarship online
DDC:
398.20953
Keywords:
Tales
;
Popular culture and literature History 19th century
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.3366/edinburgh/9781474443647.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474443647.001.0001
