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The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800
Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines
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Richard Leeuwen
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
This book explores the reception of the 1001 Nights in eighteenth-century Dutch literature and scholarship, and the bibliographic history of its French-language editions and Dutch retranslations.
Author / Editor information
Leeuwen Richard :
Richard van Leeuwen teaches at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Thousand and One Nights and his translation of the work directly from the Arabic is widely regarded as the authoritative Dutch translation.Vrolijk Arnoud :
Dr Arnoud Vrolijk is Interpres Legati Warneriani and curator of Oriental manuscripts and rare books at Leiden University Libraries. He has published extensively on the Leiden Oriental collections and the history of Arabic scholarship in the Netherlands.
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"In their richly illustrated, beautifully written, and highly informative book Richard van Leeuwen, lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam, and Arnoud Vrolijk, the curator of Oriental manuscripts and rare books at the Leiden University Library, have tackled the Dutch fortunes of Antoine Galland’s French translation of the Thousand and One Nights." - Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute, BMGN Low Countries Historical Review, Volume 135 (2020)
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 20, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789048541126
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
176
Illustrations:
69
Coloured Illustrations:
69
eBook ISBN:
9789048541126
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
