The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London

The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London

Nile Green • Princeton University Press

ISBN-10: 0691168326 · ISBN-13: 978‑0691168326

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Nile Green examines the intellectual and cultural odyssey of six Iranian students who traveled to London in the early twentieth century. By juxtaposing their personal diaries and letters against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing Britain, the work explores the profound cross-cultural encounters and the complex negotiation of identity that occurred as these young men navigated a society defined by both Victorian legacies and colonial tensions.

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