Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781474443647 |
| ISBN10: | 1474443648 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 232 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 494 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 10 Illustrations, black & white |
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Category:
Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Edition number: 1
Publisher: EUP
Date of Publication: 19 August 2019
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Short description:
Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.
Long description:
This wonderful book shows how firmly the Arabian Nights was embedded in the British cultural psyche during the nineteenth century. From childhood reading through to stage performances and the narratives of archaeology and industrial modernity, this astute study tracks the ways in which the Arabian Nights wove its own forms of entrancement. Dickson?s subtle text calls for a recalibration of our understandings of ?Orientalism? in the nineteenth century.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ?For a time their world made mine?: Childhood Encounters with the Arabian Nights; 2. Underground Palaces and Castles in the Air: The Realms and Ruins of the Arabian Nights; 3. The Magical Metropolis; 4. Magic and Machines at the Great Exhibition; 5. Epilogue: A New Arabian Nights; Bibliography; Index.
