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1 online resource (x, 185 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-179) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Islam and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Islam and literature. |
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Islam and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Orientalism in literature.
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Orientalism in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Historiography.
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Turkey -- In literature.
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Turkey. |
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1288-1918 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Andrea, Bernadette Diane. Women and Islam in early modern English literature. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2008297454 |
| ISBN |
9780511394539 (electronic book) |
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0511394535 (electronic book) |
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9780511483424 (ebook) |
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0511483422 (ebook) |
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9780521867641 (hardback) |
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9780511391743 |
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0521867649 (hardback) |
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