Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain


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An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century Britain

  • An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century Britain
  • Fresh readings of canonical texts such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Hard Times, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
  • Diverse primary sources analysing the presence of the Arabian Nights in distinct areas of cultural production: constructions of childhood, archaeological and geological science, theatrical display, and exhibitions

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?

Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture. She explores how this period used the stories as a means of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing environment. She also argues for a view of these 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


About the Author:

Dr Melissa Dickson is an ECR-funded researcher at St Anne's College Oxford. Her publications include Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, co-authored with Ameila Bonea, Sally Shuttleworth and Jennifer Wallis (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), 'Jane Eyre's 'Arabian Tales' Reading and Remembering the Arabian Nights', Journal of Victorian Culture, 18:2 (2013) and 'Charles Wheatstone's Enchanted Lyre and the Spectacle of Sound' in Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851, ed. by Ellen Lockhart and James Q. Davies (University of Chicago Press, 2017).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781474443647
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1474443648
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2019
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Series Title: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
  • Weight: 503 gr


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