Samara Anne Cahill

Intelligent Souls?

Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of "feminist orientalism”.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781684480975
• ISBN-10: 1684480973
• Artikelnr.: 54436379

Autorenporträt

SAMARA A. CAHILL is an assistant professor of eighteenth-century English literature at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is the coeditor of Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century and the the book review editor of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early-Modern Era (both Bucknell University Press). 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Foreign Intelligence … 1
Part I: Islam and the Trinitarian Controversy
Chapter 1: The Negative Ideal … 23
Part II: Feminist Orientalism
Chapter 2: Minding the Gap … 81
Chapter 3: The Canal of Pleasure … 146
Chapter 4: A “Foreign and Uninteresting” Subject … 227
Chapter 5: The “Mahometan Strain” … 262
Epilogue: Save Our Souls? … 308
Bibliography … 315