The Arabian Nights, Arab-European Literary Influence, and the Lineages of the Novel

Abstract

Rebecca Carol Johnson is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Yale University. Her research focuses on the development of Arabic and European novels as an inquiry into the global circulation of form. Her interests also include the poetics, politics, and practice of translation. Her translation of Sinan Antoon's novel, I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, is forthcoming. Richard Maxwell teaches comparative literature at Yale University. He is author of The Mysteries of Paris and London (1992) and editor of The Victorian Illustrated Book (2002), Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities (2003), and, with Katie Trumpener, The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period (forthcoming). He is working on a study of historical fiction from 1660 to the present. His essay “Pretenders in Sanctuary” appeared in the June 2000 issue of MLQ. Katie Trumpener is professor of comparative literature and English at Yale University. Her first book, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire (1997), surveys the novel's rise in Ireland, Scotland, and the early British Empire. A forthcoming book compares the East and West German cinemas. Her current book project is a comparative study of European modernism.