Author : Melissa Dickson
Release : 2020
Genre : Popular culture and literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 055/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-century Britain by : Melissa Dickson
Download or read book Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-century Britain written by Melissa Dickson. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
