{"product_id":"the-arabian-nights-in-historical-context-between-east-and-west-9780199554157","title":"The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West","description":"\u003cem\u003eAlf layla wa layla\u003c\/em\u003e (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume \u003cem\u003eMille et Une Nuit\u003c\/em\u003es in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating \u003cem\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism--this collection of essays by noted scholars from \"East,\" \"West,\" and in-between reassesses the influence of the \u003cem\u003eNights\u003c\/em\u003e in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous afterlife in the contemporary Arabic novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaree Makdisi\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eRomantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), and \u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s\u003c\/em\u003e (2003). He has also written a number of articles for publications including \u003cem\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouth Atlantic Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStudies in Romanticism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Blake\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830\u003c\/em\u003e. Felicity Nussbaum is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Senior Global Fellow with the International Institute. She is the author most recently of \u003cem\u003eThe Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), and the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e (2003). Among her other publications are \u003cem\u003eThe Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), co-winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize; and \u003cem\u003eTorrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire\u003c\/em\u003e (1995).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318380073234,"sku":"9780199554157","price":141.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a36d326-f688-4c4b-a566-8bfe9cc8f651.jpg?v=1727554448","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-arabian-nights-in-historical-context-between-east-and-west-9780199554157","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}