Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum: Introduction
1: Madeleine Dobie: Translation in the Contact Zone: Antoine
Galland's Mille et une nuits: contes arabes
2: Robert L. Mack: Cultivating the Garden: Antoine Galland's
Arabian Nights in the Traditions of English Literature
3: Ros Ballaster: Playing the Second String: The Role of Dinarzade
in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
4: Bridget Orr: Galland, Georgian Theater, and the Creation of
Popular Orientalism
5: Nabil Matar: Christians in The Arabian Nights
6: Khalid Bekkaoui: White Women and Moorish Fancy in
Eighteenth-Century Literature
7: Donna Landry: William Beckford's Vathek and the Uses of Oriental
Reenactment
8: James Watt: The peculiar character of the Arabian Tale: William
Beckford and The Arabian Nights
9: Tim Fulford: Coleridge and the Oriental Tale
10: Srinivas Aravamudan: The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental
Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate The Arabian
Nights
11: Nasser Al-Taee: Under the Spell of Magic: The Oriental Tale in
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
12: Maher Jarrar: The Influence of The Arabian Nights on the
Contemporary Arabic Novel
Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of
Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity
(1998), and William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
(2003). He has also written a number of articles for publications
including Critical Inquiry, South Atlantic Quarterly, Studies in
Romanticism, The
Cambridge Companion to Blake, The Oxford Encyclopedia of British
Literature, and The Cambridge Companion to English Literature,
1740-1830. 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 The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender
in the Long Eighteenth Century (2003), and the editor of The Global
Eighteenth Century (2003). Among her other publications are The
Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century
England (1989), co-winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize; and Torrid
Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire (1995).
The Arabian Nights in Historical Context showcases the range and
quality of literary scholorship that the oriental tale is currently
attracting... scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic
literature will find so much to interest them here, and this
collection is also highly recommended to anyone involved in the
continuing challenge of mapping out the wider cross-cultural
influences of the Nights.
*Laurence Williams, The Cambridge Quarterly*
The collection presented by Makdisi and Nussbaum shows how
scholarship in the literary and cultural impact of the Thousand and
on nights is advancing and becoming theororetically more
sophisticated.
*Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam*
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