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Fictitious capital : silk, cotton, and the rise of the Arabic novel
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- Creator
- Elizabeth M. Holt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2017
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xi, 179 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780823277216, 082327604X, 0823276066, 0823276023, 0823276031, 9780823276059, 9780823276028, 9780823276042, 0823277216, 0823276058, 9780823276066, 9780823276035
- OCLC
- ocn987772673, ocn988869826, ocn964290638
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Serialized fiction -- Lebanon -- History and criticism.
- Serialized fiction -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
- Arabic fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature publishing -- Economic aspects -- Lebanon -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature publishing -- Economic aspects -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century.