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An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights
within nineteenth-century Britain An overview of the cultural
transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century
Britain Fresh readings of canonical texts such as Charlotte
Bronte's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Hard Times, and Lewis
Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Diverse primary sources analysing the
presence of the Arabian Nights in distinct areas of cultural
production: constructions of childhood, archaeological and
geological science, theatrical display, and exhibitions Aladdin,
Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Scheherazade winding out
her intricate tales to win her nightly stay of execution: the
stories of the Arabian Nights are a familiar and much-loved part of
the English literary inheritance. But how did these tales become so
much a part of the British cultural landscape? Dickson identifies
the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale
absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and
culture. She explores how this period used the stories as a means
of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing
environment. She also argues for a view of these tales not as a
depiction of otherness, but as a site of recognition and
imaginative exchange between East and West, in a period when such
common ground was rarely found
This volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in
the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth
century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany,
Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how
popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were
reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of
'modern life'. Chapters in the collection examine ways in which
cancer, suicide and social degeneration were seen as products of
the stresses and strains of 'new' ways of living. Others explore
the legal, institutional and intellectual changes that contributed
to modern medical practice. The volume traces how physiological and
psychological problems were constituted in relation to each other
and to their social contexts, offering new ways of contextualising
the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development
Goal 3, 'Good health and well-being'. -- .
An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights
within nineteenth-century Britain An overview of the cultural
transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century
Britain Fresh readings of canonical texts such as Charlotte
Bronte's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Hard Times, and Lewis
Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Diverse primary sources analysing the
presence of the Arabian Nights in distinct areas of cultural
production: constructions of childhood, archaeological and
geological science, theatrical display, and exhibitions Aladdin,
Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Scheherazade winding out
her intricate tales to win her nightly stay of execution: the
stories of the Arabian Nights are a familiar and much-loved part of
the English literary inheritance. But how did these tales become so
much a part of the British cultural landscape? Dickson identifies
the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale
absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and
culture. She explores how this period used the stories as a means
of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing
environment. She also argues for a view of these tales not as a
depiction of otherness, but as a site of recognition and
imaginative exchange between East and West, in a period when such
common ground was rarely found
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