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Fictitious Capital : Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel.
The ups and downs of silk, cotton and stocks synchopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press; time itself was changing. Khalil al-Khuri, Salim al-Bustani, and Jurji Zaydan wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk, increasingly legible as tools of French and Britis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- In the garden: serialized Arabic fiction and its reading public Beirut, 1870
- Like a butterfly stirring within a chrysalis: Salīm al-Bustānī, Yūsuf al-Shalf?n, and the remainder to come
- Fictions of capital in 1870s and 1880s Beirut
- Mourning the nahḍah: from Beirut to Cairo, after midnight
- Of literary supplements, second editions, and the lottery: the rise of Jurjī Zaydān
- It was cotton money now: novel material in Yaʻqūb Ṣarrūf's turn-of-the-twentieth-century Cairo.