TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Rebecca C.
TI  - Stranger fictions: a history of the novel in Arabic translation 
SN  - 9781501753305
AV  - PJ7577 .S773 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca [New York]
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Arabic fiction
KW  - European influences
KW  - 1801-
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Translating and interpreting
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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