TY  - DATA
AU  - Dickson, Melissa,
TI  - Cultural encounters with the Arabian nights in nineteenth-century Britain
SN  - 9781474477055 (ebook) :
U1  - 398.20953 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Tales
KW  - Arabian Peninsula
KW  - Popular culture and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
N2  - 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
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474443647.001.0001
ER  -