Oriental Influences In The English Literature Of The Nineteenth Century

Author : Marie E. De Meester
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ISBN 13 : 9781331779629
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Oriental Influences written by Marie E. De Meester and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oriental Influences: In the English Literature of the Early Nineteenth Century This paper is an attempt to collect the most important specimens of oriental or pseudo-oriental fiction that have been written in England during the nineteenth century. The subject was suggested to me by Professor Hoops, who, in his essay Present Problems of English Literary History, and afterwards more extensively in his article Orientalische Stoffe in der Englischen Literatur in the Deutsche Rundschau, had already pointed out the importance of the East for the literature of England. Miss Martha P. Conant treated the eighteenth century in her work The Oriental Tale in England, but a collective work on this subject for the nineteenth century has not yet been made, although a number of articles and dissertations on various parts of it have been published during the last twenty years. To the authors of all of these I am indebted for many details. Of great use to me were also Sir Richard F. Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights, with its Appendices by the author and by Mr. W. F. Kirby; M. Victor Chauvin's Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes ou relatifs aux arabes, publies dans l'Europe chretienne de 1810 a 1885, and Miss Conant's book. The term Orient is meant to signify the same as in the last named author's book The Oriental Tale in England, viz. "those countries, collectively, that begin with Islam on the eastern Mediterranean and stretch through Asia," with the exception of Palestine. The inconsequence in the spelling of oriental names must be excused by the fact, that I always retain the spelling used by the author in hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."