Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages / / Jeffrey Einboden.
A transnational study of the American Renaissance which explores the literary circulation of Middle Eastern translations of 19th-century U.S. literatureIn a pioneering approach to classic U.S. Literature, Jeffrey Einboden traces the global afterlives of literary icons from Washington Irving to Walt...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I Scriptural Circulations
- Chapter 1 Judaic Maccabæus: Longfellow and Joseph Massel
- Chapter 2 Mahomet or Muḥammad? Irving and ‘Alī Ḥusnī al-Kharbūṭlī
- PART II Orienting the American Romance
- Chapter 3 Inscribing the Persian Letter: Hawthorne and Sīmīn Dāneshvar
- Chapter 4 Navigating the Arabic Whale: Melville and Iḥsān ‘Abbās
- PART III ‘I too am untranslatable’: Middle Eastern Leaves
- Chapter 5 The New Bible in Hebrew: Whitman and Simon Halkin
- Chapter 6 American ‘Song’ of Iraqi Exile: Whitman and Saadi Youssef
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index