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Author:

Holt, Elizabeth M., author.

Title:

Fictitious capital : silk, cotton, and the rise of the Arabic novel / Elizabeth M. Holt.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 179 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Serialized fiction--Lebanon--History and criticism.
Serialized fiction--Egypt--History and criticism.
Arabic fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature publishing--History--Lebanon--History--19th century.
Literature publishing--History--Egypt--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- In the garden: serialized Arabic fiction and its reading public Beirut, 1870 -- Like a butterfly stirring within a chrysalis: Salim al-Bustani, Yusuf al-Shalf?n, and the remainder to come -- Fictions of capital in 1870s and 1880s Beirut -- Mourning the nahdĐah: from Beirut to Cairo, after midnight -- Of literary supplements, second editions, and the lottery: the rise of Jurji Zaydan -- It was cotton money now: novel material in Yaqub SĐarruf's turn-of-the-twentieth-century Cairo.

ISBN:

0823276023
9780823276028
0823276031
9780823276035

OCLC:

(OCoLC)964290638

LCCN:

2016058727

Locations:

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