Cultural encounters with the Arabian nights in nineteenth-century Britain /
Dickson, Melissa,
Cultural encounters with the Arabian nights in nineteenth-century Britain / Melissa Dickson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
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.
9781474477055 (ebook) : No price
Tales--Arabian Peninsula.
Popular culture and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
398.20953
Cultural encounters with the Arabian nights in nineteenth-century Britain / Melissa Dickson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
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.
9781474477055 (ebook) : No price
Tales--Arabian Peninsula.
Popular culture and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
398.20953