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Author:

Long, Andrew C., author.

Title:

Reading Arabia : British Orientalism in the age of mass publication, 1880-1930 / Andrew C. Long.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 269 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--Relations--Arab countries.
Arab countries--Relations--Great Britain.
Arab countries--Foreign public opinion, British.
Orientalism--Great Britain--History.
Arabs in popular culture--Great Britain--History.
Arabs in mass media.
British literature--History and criticism.
Arabs in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Britain at the fin de siècle and the Orientalist unconscious -- The two tangents of British Orientalism : Burton and Doughty, dandy and prophet in the 1880s -- Khartoum nightmare : popular literature of the British campaign in the Sudan -- A refusal and a traversal : Robert Cunninghame Graham's engagement with Orientalism in Mogreb-el-Acksa -- Orientalism from within and without : Marmaduke Pickthall -- The Arabist as abject modern : T.E. Lawrence -- Conclusion: How to read the Orientalist archive.

Series:

Contemporary issues in the Middle East

ISBN:

0815633238 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780815633235 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)866803672

LCCN:

2013049871

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)