Bernadette Andrea

The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Bernadette Andrea's groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501259
• ISBN-10: 1487501250
• Artikelnr.: 46482306

Autorenporträt

By Bernadette Andrea

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in British
Literature and Culture, c. 1500-1630
CHAPTER TWO: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern
Englishwomen’s Authorship: Queen Elizabeth I, the Tartar Girl, and the
Tartar-Indian Woman
CHAPTER THREE: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern
Englishwomen’s Authorship: Lady Mary Wroth, the Tartar-Persian Princess,
and the Tartar King
CHAPTER FOUR: Signifying Gender and Islam in Early Shakespeare: The Comedy
of Errors (1594) and the Gray’s Inn Revels (1594-95)
CHAPTER FIVE: Signifying Gender and Islam in Late Shakespeare: Henry VIII
or All is True (1613) and British "Masques of Blackness" (c. 1507-1605)
CHAPTER SIX: The Intersecting Paths of Two Women from the Islamic World:
Teresa Sampsonia, Mariam Khanim, and the East India Company
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