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The Arabian Nights in Historical Context This page intentionally left blank The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West EDITED BY Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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Many of the essays published here were presented in shorter form at a conference we subsequently organized, ‘The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: FromGalland toBurton’ (October2005). The confer- encewasgenerouslysponsoredbytheSeventeenthandEighteenth-Century StudiesCenter,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,andheldattheWilliam Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. We would like to thank most heartily Professor Peter Reill, Director of the Clark Library, for his unstinting support of our project from its very inception. He has made possible the funding for the research assistance that brought this book to fruition,andhehasalsogenerouslyofferedadviceandcounsel.Thestaffsof the Center/Clark of the English Department have also been extremely helpful, for which we are very grateful. Several other essays included here were presented in shortened form at the conference ‘Romancing the East’, organized by Nick Groom and John HalliwellattheUniversityofBristol(January2006).Wethanktheorganizers andauthorsforsharingtheseessayswithus.NicoleHorejsi,nowteachingat Columbia University, and Naindeep Chann, currently a UCLA graduate student, provided bibliographical skill and superb editing in compiling the manuscript. We also wish to thank editor Andrew McNeillie, as well as Valerie Shelley, Jacqueline Baker, Fiona Vlemmiks, and Claire Thompson at Oxford University Press for expertly assisting us at every stage of the publication process. Theeditorswanttothanktheirfamilies,colleagues,students,andfriends for their kind support and knowledgeable advice. These include especially John Agnew, Christina Makdisi, Ali Behdad, Donna Landry, Robert Mack, Susan McLarey, and Anne Mellor. This page intentionally left blank ONTENTS C List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum 1. Translation in the Contact Zone: Antoine Galland’s Mille et une nuits: contes arabes 25 Madeleine Dobie 2. Cultivating the Garden: Antoine Galland’s Arabian Nights in the Traditions of English Literature 51 Robert L. Mack 3. Playing the Second String: The Role of Dinarzade in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction 83 Ros Ballaster 4. Galland, Georgian Theatre, and the Creation of Popular Orientalism 103 Bridget Orr 5. Christians in The Arabian Nights 131 Nabil Matar 6. White Women and Moorish Fancy in Eighteenth-Century Literature 153 Khalid Bekkaoui 7. William Beckford’s Vathek and the Uses of Oriental Re-enactment 167 Donna Landry viii / Contents 8. ‘The peculiar character of the Arabian Tale’: William Beckford and The Arabian Nights 195 James Watt 9. Coleridge and the Oriental Tale 213 Tim Fulford 10. The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate The Arabian Nights 235 Srinivas Aravamudan 11. Under the Spell of Magic: The Oriental Tale in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade 265 Nasser Al-Taee 12. The Arabian Nights and the Contemporary Arabic Novel 297 Maher Jarrar Select Bibliography 317 Compiled by Robert L. Mack Index 329 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 1. Le´on Nikolayevich Bakst (1866–1924), Ballet Hindou (1913). Photograph # 2008, Museum fo Fine Arts, Boston, Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection. Bequest of GraceM.Edwardsinmemoryofhermother. 2. HenriRegnault (1843–71), Summary Execution under the Moorish King of Grenada (1870). Muse´e d’Orsay, Paris, Photograph Jean Schormans, Re´union des Muse´es Natio- naux/ArtResource,NewYork. Music Examples 1. Rimsky-Korsakov,Sheherazade,SultanSchahriar’stheme,movement1 2. Rimsky-Korsakov,Sheherazade,Scheherazade’stheme,movement1 3. Rimsky-Korsakov,Sheherazade,the‘Whirling’themefrommovement2 Part1ofthe‘Whirling’theme Part2ofthe‘Whirling’theme
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