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"Before colonialism, Persian literature lay at the heart of the global literary system. Schwartz elegantly and vividly recuperates the trans-regional history of Persian literature during the crucial 18th and 19th centuries - an essential and under-studied dimension of the transition from traditional culture to European-inflected modernity. A must-read for anyone interested in traditional and modern world literatures.-- ""Alexander Beecroft, University of South Carolina"" Clear, succinct, and engaging closely with up-to-date scholarship in English and Persian, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of Persian literary history, the Persianate world, and emergent literary nationalisms.--Shaahin Pishbin, University of Chicago ""IJMES"" This book takes a giant step, cogently arguing how the shared heritage of medieval Persian literary culture, that had once held together many literary communities over the vast expanse of the Eurasian landmass, began to break up, eventually leading to the emergence of divergent ideals and efforts through the 18th and 19th centuries.-- ""Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Author of Recasting Persian Poetry"""

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Kevin L. Schwartz is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, specialising in the literary history and culture of Iran and the Persianate world. He was previously a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Middle East Chair) at the US Naval Academy.

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