Persian literary influence on English literature
Subtitle: with special reference to the nineteenth century
By: Hasan Javadi.
Series: Bibliotheca Iranica.; no. 8
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Costa Mesa, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: English literature -- Iranian influences.; Persian literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Persian literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.; Iran -- Foreign public opinion, British.; Iran -- In literature.
Description: "Hasan Javadi presents a survey of the subject often only briefly mentioned, or entirely disregarded, in many histories of English Literature. Students of that literature know of Edward FitzGerald's Ruba'iyyat or Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum, but many are unaware of the fascination that the East, including Persia, has exercised over European minds. Though dealing primarily with English literature, Javadi includes in his account some continental European Orientalists of note as well. Beginning in the late Middle Ages when the Bible and the classics were the main sources of information about Persia; the book covers the 16th and 17th centuries, when travel was beginning to increase Western knowledge about the East. There is a detailed account of Persian themes in Romantic poetry and prose, and a discussion of the works of travelers and novelists such as James Morier, whose Hajji Baba of Ispahan is still a popular novel for many Iranians."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. (229)-245) and index.