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

Published New York : University of Virginia Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages) 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 Notes Print version record Subject Serialized fiction -- Lebanon -- History and criticism Serialized fiction -- Egypt -- History and criticism Arabic fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature publishing -- Economic aspects -- Lebanon -- History -- 19th century Literature publishing -- Economic aspects -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century Arabic fiction -- 1801- -- History and criticism Arabic fiction Literature publishing -- Economic aspects Serialized fiction Egypt Lebanon Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780823276059 0823276058

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