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  title info:
    title: Reconfiguring and appropriating Arabic, Persian, and Indic literary traditions in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain
    sub title: Orientalism and the recreation of the Islamicate canon
  title info:
    title: Reconfiguring and appropriating Arabic, Persian, and Indic literary traditions in 17th and 18th century Britain
  name:
    name part: Gallien, Claire
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: "Reconfiguring and Appropriating Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literary Traditions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the reconfigurations of literary traditions coming from Islamicate regions of the world by British orientalists. Claire Gallien explores the logics of orientalist selection, reconfiguration, and appropriation of Islamicate literary canons, and focuses on the period going from the endowment of the first chairs in Arabic at Cambridge and Oxford in 1632 and 1636 respectively to the establishment of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784, presided by Sir William Jones until 1794. Contrary to the Saidian premise of an invention of the East by the West, Gallien argues that orientalists did not invent a canon but they transferred and translated texts and authors, which/who were already recognised as canonical across Islamicate literary cultures. Given the above, the question that preoccupies this book is what happens to the canon when partially re-created and re-purposed for European readers.Organised in three main parts, this book analyses first the constitution of collections of Arabic, Persian, and Indic manuscripts and their cataloguing in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The second part investigates the variety of linguistic and literary partitioning and assemblage proposed by orientalists and discusses how their classical literary formation underpinned theories and practices of imitation, translation, and writing. The third part examines the editing and translating of Arabic, Persian, and Indic literatures in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England as well as in British colonial India, and in particular the function of specimens and anthologies in the constitution of a corpus of Eastern literatures in English." --
  target audience: specialized
  note: Claire Gallien.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Oriental literature
    topic: Collectors and collecting
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Oriental literature
    topic: Collectors and collecting
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Oriental literature
    topic: Catalogs
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Oriental literature
    genre: Translations into English
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Littérature orientale
    topic: Collectionneurs et collections
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 17e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Littérature orientale
    topic: Collectionneurs et collections
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 18e siècle
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
  subject:
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Literature: history & criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  classification: PJ307 .G35 2025
  classification: 809.895
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    title info:
      title: Reconfiguring and appropriating Arabic, Persian, and Indic literary traditions in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain
    name:
      name part: Gallien, Claire.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024949174
    identifier: (OCoLC)1518926921
  identifier: 9780198908432
  identifier: 0198908431
  identifier: 9780198908418
  identifier: 0198908415
  identifier: 9780198908401
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250318
    record change date: 20260319205921.1
    record identifier: in00005728119
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng