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020			_a9781474477055 (ebook) : _cNo price
082			_a398.20953
100			_aDickson, Melissa, _eauthor. _922740
245			_aCultural encounters with the Arabian nights in nineteenth-century Britain / _cMelissa Dickson.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : _billustrations (black and white).
520			_aAladdin, 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.
650			_aTales _zArabian Peninsula. _922741
650			_aPopular culture and literature _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century. _922742
856			_uhttps://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474443647.001.0001
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