Islam and early modern English literature : the politics of romance from Spenser to Milton / Benedict S. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Benedict Scott, 1972-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Islam in literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Islam and literature.

Great Britain.

English literature--Islamic influences.

English literature--Turkic influences.

Islam and literature--English-speaking countries.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xi, 236 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Romance was the preeminent narrative form through which medieval Christendom imagined its encounter with the world. But in the early modern period, religious war and commercial and colonial expansion radically changed the terms of that encounter. This book traces the process through which Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and others adapted, revised, or resisted romance, mapping a world of increasingly uncertain allegiances and affiliations. Early modern romance re-imagined the world, and in the process decisively rearticulated the relations between " Christendom, " " Islam, " and " Europe." By attending to genre, Robinson explores both the conflicts that formed early modern identities and the power of literary form to shape the world defined by those conflicts - a power with effects that reach to our present moment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-221) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1403977933

9781403977939

OCLC:

77767557

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