The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West

Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of iRomantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity/i (1998), and iWilliam Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s/i (2003). He has alsowritten a number of articles for publications including iCritical Inquiry/i, iSouth Atlantic Quarterly/i, iStudies in Romanticism/i, iThe Cambridge Companion to Blake/i, iThe Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature/i, and iThe Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830/i. FelicityNussbaum is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Senior Global Fellow with the International Institute. She is the author most recently of iThe Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century/i (2003), and the editor ofiThe Global Eighteenth Century/i (2003). Among her other publications are iThe Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England/i (1989), co-winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize; and iTorrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire/i (1995). Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of iRomantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity/i (1998), and iWilliam Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s/i (2003). He has alsowritten a number of articles for publications including iCritical Inquiry/i, iSouth Atlantic Quarterly/i, iStudies in Romanticism/i, iThe Cambridge Companion to Blake/i, iThe Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature/i, and iThe Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830/i. FelicityNussbaum is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Senior Global Fellow with the International Institute. She is the author most recently of iThe Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century/i (2003), and the editor ofiThe Global Eighteenth Century/i (2003). Among her other publications are iThe Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England/i (1989), co-winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize; and iTorrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire/i (1995).