The article focuses on Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), who in his unabridged translation of the Arabian Nights (1885) contested strict Victorian regulation of sexual discourse, with particular reference to male homosexuality, by positing the existence of alternative forms of sexuality.
Richard Burton’s Translation of The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night: (Mis)Representation and Sexual Contamination.
ANTOSA, SILVIA
2010-01-01
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The article focuses on Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), who in his unabridged translation of the Arabian Nights (1885) contested strict Victorian regulation of sexual discourse, with particular reference to male homosexuality, by positing the existence of alternative forms of sexuality.File in questo prodotto:
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