Fictitious Capital : Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel

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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...

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Main Author: Holt, Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Serialized fiction.
Literature publishing > Economic aspects.
Arabic fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Litterature > Édition > Aspect economique > Égypte > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature > Édition > Aspect economique > Liban > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Roman arabe > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman-feuilleton > Égypte > Histoire et critique.
Roman-feuilleton > Liban > Histoire et critique.
Literature publishing > Economic aspects > Egypt > History > 19th century.
Literature publishing > Economic aspects > Lebanon > History > 19th century.
Arabic fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Serialized fiction > Egypt > History and criticism.
Serialized fiction > Lebanon > History and criticism.
Lebanon.
Egypt.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 British empire.
Physical Description:1 online resource (196 pages).
ISBN:9780823276059

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