2008/01/01 by Saree Makdisi, Felicity Nussbaum · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
paper · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554157.001.0001
openalex publication_date 2008/11/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Introduction 1. Translation in the Contact Zone: Antoine Galland's Mille et une nuits: contes arabes 2. Cultivating the Garden: Antoine Galland's Arabian Nights in the Traditions of English Literature 3. Playing the Second String: The Role of Dinarzade in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction 4. Galland, Georgian Theater, and the Creation of Popular Orientalism 5. Christians in The Arabian Nights 6. White Women and Moorish Fancy in Eighteenth-Century Literature 7. William Beckford's Vathek and the Uses of Oriental Reenactment 8. The peculiar character of the Arabian Tale: William Beckford and The Arabian Nights 9. Coleridge and the Oriental Tale 10. The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate The Arabian Nights 11. Under the Spell of Magic: The Oriental Tale in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade 12. The Influence of The Arabian Nights on the Contemporary Arabic Novel