Allan, Michael (Assistant professor of comparative literature)

In the shadow of world literature : sites of reading in colonial Egypt / Michael Allan. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016] - xi, 180 p. ; 24 cm. - Translation/transnation .



Introduction -- World : the world of world literature -- Translation : the Rosetta Stone from object to text -- Education : the moral imperative of modernization -- Literature : how Adab became literary -- Critique : debating Darwin -- Intellectuals : the provincialism of a literary world -- Conclusion.

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Literature and society--History--Egypt--19th century.

PN51 / .A46 2016