Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: TRANSLATING

1 The Sea-Born Tale: Eighteenth-Century English Translations of The Thousand and One Nights and the Lure of Elemental Difference

2 Re-Orienting William Beckford: Transmission, Translation, and Continuation of The Thousand and One Nights

3 The Collector of Worlds: Richard Burton, Cosmopolitan Translator of the Nights

PART II: ENGAGING

4 The Porter and Portability: Figure and Narrative in the Nights

5 The Rings of Budur and Qamar al-Zaman

6 White Magic: Voltaire and Galland’s Mille et une nuits

7 The Arabian Nights and the Origins of the Western Novel

8 “A Covenant for Reconciliation”: Lane’s Thousand and One Nights and Eliot’s Daniel Deronda

9 Translating Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Tale of the 672nd Night”

10 Borges and the Missing Pages of the Nights

11 The Politics of Conversation: Denis Diderot, Elio Vittorini, Manuel Puig, Masaki Kobayashi, Vasily Grossman

12 Sindbad the Sailor: Textual, Visual, and Performative Interpretations

PART III: STAGING

13 The Arabian Nights in British Pantomime

14 The Arabian Nights in Traditional Japanese Performing Arts

15 “Nectar If You Taste and Go, Poison If You Stay”: Struggling with the Orient in Eighteenth-Century British Musical Theater

16 Scheherazade, Bluebeard, and Theatrical Curiosity

17 The Takarazuka Revue and the Fantasy of “Arabia” in Japan

18 Thieves of the Orient: The Arabian Nights in Early Indian Cinema

Afterword: My Arabian Superheroine

List of Stories

Selected Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

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