Elizabeth M. Holt, Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic Novel (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017). Pp. 196. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 9780823276035
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DOI: 10.1017/s0020743819000722
Abstract: The rise of the Arabic novel, Elizabeth M. Holt contends in Fictitious Capital, is not a story of nation, but of capital—financial speculation, debt, commodity production— which in the 19th century was on the move,… read more here.
Keywords: elizabeth holt; capital; fictitious capital; arabic novel ... See more keywords