Elizabeth M Holt: 1 book
Fictitious Capital
Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Khalīl al-Khūrī, Salīm al-Bustānī, Yūsuf al-Shalfūn, Jurjī Zaydān and Yaʿqūb Ṣarrūf wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk—increasingly...
