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

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 185 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-179) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Islam and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century Islam and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Orientalism in literature. Imperialism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Early modern English literature -- Women authors Historiography Imperialism in literature Islam and literature Literature Orientalism in literature Women and literature SUBJECT Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Historiography Turkey -- In literature Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802 Subject England Turkey Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008297454 ISBN 9780511394539 0511394535 9780511483424 0511483422 1107179165 9781107179165 1281370304 9781281370303 9786611370305 6611370307 0511393881 9780511393884 0511391749 9780511391743 0511390572 9780511390579 0511393059 9780511393051

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