The Arabian nights in English literature: Studies in the reception of The thousand and one nights into British culture - Hardcover
A collection of essays which attempts to chart the influence of Arabian stories on English literature since Chaucer's day. In the tales of Scheherezade, the contributors claim, lie some of the origins of genres such as the novel and detective and science fiction. The authors covered in these studies include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Austen, De Quincey, Dickens, Thackeray, Gaskell, the Brontes, Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, Stevenson, Meredith, Darwin, Keats, Huxley, Henry James, Chesterton, Wells, Conrad, Joyce, W.B.Yeats, Kipling, Freud, the Woolfs, Herbert Read and many others.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 033336693X
- ISBN 13 9780333366936
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages330
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The Arabian Nights in English Literature. Studies in the Reception of the Thousand and One Nights into British Culture.
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