Fictitious Capital : Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel

Summary: The ups and downs of silk, cotton and stocks synchopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press; time itself was changing. Khalīl al-Khūrī, Salīm al-Bustānī, and Jurjī Zaydān wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk, increasingly legible as tools of French and British empire.

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ISBN: 082327604X
ISBN: 9780823276042
ISBN: 0823276058
ISBN: 9780823276059
ISBN: 0823277216
ISBN: 9780823277216
Physical Description: 1 online resource (143 pages)
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Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

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Introduction -- In the garden: serialized Arabic fiction and its reading public Beirut, 1870 -- Like a butterfly stirring within a chrysalis: Salīm al-Bustānī, Yūsuf al-Shalf?n, and the remainder to come -- Fictions of capital in 1870s and 1880s Beirut -- Mourning the nahḍah: from Beirut to Cairo, after midnight -- Of literary supplements, second editions, and the lottery: the rise of Jurjī Zaydān -- It was cotton money now: novel material in Yaʻqūb Ṣarrūf's turn-of-the-twentieth-century Cairo.

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