The Arabian Nights in English Literary Theory (1704-1910): Scheherazade in England. an Expanded and Updated Version of the 1981 Edition

by Muhsin J. al-Musawi

In its first edition, this book was a new opening in the study of the Arabian Nights as an index of literary taste, a case study for the engagements of poets and writers, along with the common reading public, with an art that took Europe by surprise, and forced new patterns of response and writing. Borges thought of its advent as a dynamic that helped generate the romantic mode and sensibility. It certainly disturbed old habits of thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433187825
• ISBN13: 9781433187827
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 260 Pages