Bernadette Andrea, Andrea Bernadette

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of writings about the Ottoman Empire and other Islamic countries by women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121767
• ISBN-10: 0521121760
• Artikelnr.: 27064739

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'the borrowed veil': reassessing gender studies of early modern England and Islam
1. Early modern Queens and Anglo-Ottoman trade
2. The imaginary geographies of Mary Wroth's Urania
3. Early Quaker women, the missionary position, and Mediterraneanism
4. The female wits and the genealogy of feminist Orientalism
5. The scandal of polygamy in Delarivier Manley's Roman à Clef
Coda: Arab women revisit Mary Wortley Montagu's hammam.