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...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (196 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780823276059 |