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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Translation in the Contact Zone: Antoine Galland's Mille et une nuits: contes arabes -- 2. Cultivating the Garden: Antoine Galland's Arabian Nights in the Traditions of English Literature -- 3. Playing the Second String: The Role of Dinarzade in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction -- 4. Galland, Georgian Theatre, and the Creation of Popular Orientalism -- 5. Christians in The Arabian Nights -- 6. White Women and Moorish Fancy in Eighteenth-Century Literature -- 7. William Beckford's Vathek and the Uses of Oriental Re-enactment -- 8. 'The peculiar character of the Arabian Tale': William Beckford and The Arabian Nights -- 9. Coleridge and the Oriental Tale -- 10. The Adventure Chronotope and the Oriental Xenotrope: Galland, Sheridan, and Joyce Domesticate: The Arabian Nights -- 11. Under the Spell of Magic: The Oriental Tale in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade -- 12. The Arabian Nights and the Contemporary Arabic Novel -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In the 300 hundred years following the translation of The Arabian Nights into French and English, a chain of editions, compilations, translations, and variations has circled the globe. Here scholars from across the world reassess the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and beyond.