Adam Smith and the Dark Nightingale: on twentieth-century sentimentalism
This article reconsiders sentimentalism in the light of the writings of Adam Smith and the career of Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Egypt's 'Dark Nightingale' and film-star crooner of the 1950s and 60s. It explores competing representations of emotionality, the limits of enchantment, and the con...
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Cambridge University Press
2006
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