The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800 : : Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines / / Arnoud Vrolijk, Richard Leeuwen.

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• VerfasserIn: Leeuwen, Richard,; Vrolijk, Arnoud,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

Antoine Galland's French translation of the 1001 Nights started appearing in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectual and statesman Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716). D...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Thousand and one nights and literary Orientalism in Europe
• 2. Dutch Orientalism before 1700
• 3. Antoine Galland and Ghisbert Cuper
• 4. The early editions of the Nights
• 5. Gilbert de Flines
• 6. Later editions in the eighteenth century
• 7. Dutch Orientalism in the eighteenth century
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Bibliographic survey of Dutch editions, 1705-1807
• Appendix 2. The David Coster engravings
• Appendix 3. Text samples of the Dutch Nights
• Appendix 4. French and Dutch quotations
• Illustration credits
• Bibliography
• Index