XL441: 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination

This collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the 1001 Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, the nature of 'Orientalism', and the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.

This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music.

Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.