 | Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel Subjects: 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; Literat; 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. Holt Elizabeth M. : Elizabeth M. Holt is Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. Elizabeth M. Holt is Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. |
