Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain / / Melissa Dickson.
An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century BritainFresh readings of canonical texts such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in WonderlandDiverse primary sources analysing the presence of the Arabian Ni...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on the Text
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘For a time their world made mine’: Childhood Encounters with the Arabian Nights
- Chapter 2 Underground Palaces and Castles in the Air: The Realms and Ruins of the Arabian Nights
- Chapter 3 The Magical Metropolis
- Chapter 4 Magic and Machines at the Great Exhibition
- Chapter 5 Epilogue: A New Arabian Nights
- Bibliography
- Index