Women and Islam in early modern English literature / Bernadette Andrea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrea, Bernadette Diane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women and literature--England--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--England--History--17th century.

Islam and literature--England--History--16th century.

Islam and literature.

Islam and literature--England--History--17th century.

Orientalism in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Historiography.

Turkey.

Turkey--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 185 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Women & Islam in Early Modern English Literature

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.

Contents:

'The borrowed veil': reassessing gender studies of early modern England and Islam

Early modern queens and Anglo-Ottoman trade

The imaginary geographies of Mary Wroth's Urania

Early Quaker women, the missionary position, and Mediterraneanism

The female wits and the genealogy of feminist Orientalism

The scandal of polygamy in Delarivier Manley's Roman à clef

Arab women revisit Mary Wortley Montagu's hammam.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-179) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17916-5

1-281-37030-4

9786611370305

0-511-39388-1

0-511-48342-2

0-511-39453-5

0-511-39174-9

0-511-39057-2

0-511-39305-9

OCLC:

476152422