{"product_id":"the-arabian-nights-in-historical-context-between-east-and-west-9780199554157","title":"The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlf layla wa layla\u003c\/em\u003e (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivaled by any other literary text. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume \u003cem\u003eMille et Une Nuit\u003c\/em\u003es in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of \u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e into English, Continental, and global literature, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a thorough introduction situating \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e in its historical and cultural contexts and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism--this collection of essays by noted scholars from East, West, and in-between reassesses the influence of the \u003cem\u003eNights\u003c\/em\u003e in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous afterlife in the contemporary Arabic novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Saree Makdisi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9780199554157\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2009 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaree Makdisi\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eRomantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), and \u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s\u003c\/em\u003e (2003). He has also written a number of articles for publications including \u003cem\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouth Atlantic Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStudies in Romanticism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Blake\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830\u003c\/em\u003e. Felicity Nussbaum is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Senior Global Fellow with the International Institute. She is the author most recently of \u003cem\u003eThe Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), and the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e (2003). Among her other publications are \u003cem\u003eThe Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), co-winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize; and \u003cem\u003eTorrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire\u003c\/em\u003e (1995).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39934221287539,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":299.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_94b5d6be-6a41-4724-a970-7be39c856d4b.jpg?v=1647878129","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-arabian-nights-in-historical-context-between-east-and-west-9780199554157","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}