Stranger fictions : a history of the novel in Arabic translation / Rebecca C. Johnson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: a history of the novel in mistranslation -- Crusoe's Babel, missionaries' mistakes: translated origins -- Stranger publics: the structural translation of the print sphere -- Errant readers: the serialized novel's modern subject -- Fictions of connectivity: the literary economy of Monte Cristo -- Age of the comparative world picture: Jules Verne's colonial worlds -- The melodramatic state: popular translation and the erring nation -- Conclusion: invader fictions: national literature after translation.

"This book argues that the circulation of European novels and European-style fiction in the nineteenth century Arabic world, and the multiple translation practices that enabled it, are central to the development of the Arabic novel"--

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