Literary modernity between the Middle East and Europe
: textual transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures
/ Kamran Rastegar.
; New York
: Routledge
, 2007.
xv, 176 p.
; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-172) and index.
The literary abacus : transactions in nineteenth-century Arabic, English, and Persian literatures -- Biographies of the Arabian nights, an English chapter -- Modern Arabic and Persian biographies of the Arabian nights -- The inner subjects of Arabic and Persian travel texts on Europe -- On nothing and everything : travel, conversion, and the transformation of (Ahmad) Faris al-Shidyaq, Arab observer of Europe -- Transactions and translations: Hajji Baba Ispahani's value between English and Persian readerships -- Conclusion : towards critical philology.