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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garcia, Humberto, 1978-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Enlightenment--Great Britain.
- Enlightenment.
- Islam in literature.
- Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
- Great Britain.
- Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.
- Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century
- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna
- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism
- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial
- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir
- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic
- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man
- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0532-6
- OCLC:
- 794700769
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