WorkAntoine Galland
Aladdin story / One Thousand and One Nights [Alf Layla wa-Layla] (Arabic oral tradition; first major European edition: Galland's Les Mille et une nuits
InferredFuller uses 'Aladdin's lamp' as a familiar cultural shorthand for magical instant abundance. The story of Aladdin was introduced to Western Europe through Antoine Galland's French translation Les Mille et une Nuits (1704–17) and was extremely widely known by the 1840s through English chapbooks, pantomime, and literary allusions.
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Documented 1841–1843
Letters • Books
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“Could I transport myself on some Aladdin carpet and return in a few hours, unseen by any one but you, we would take a walk together today.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller alludes to the 'Aladdin carpet' (magic flying carpet) as a figure of instantaneous transportation.
“the hospitality of the heart, which, if it has no Aladdin's lamp to create a palace for the guest, does him still higher service by the freedom of its bounty”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller uses 'Aladdin's lamp' as a familiar cultural shorthand for magical instant abundance. The story of Aladdin was introduced to Western Europe through Antoine Galland's French translation Les Mille et une Nuits (1704–17) and was extremely widely known by the 1840s through English chapbooks, pantomime, and literary allusions.