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Author:

Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Title:

Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xviii, 346 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Islam in literature.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- A true protestant Mahometan : Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist : Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution : Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- The flight and return of Mohammed : plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology : the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue : postcolonial reflections.

ISBN:

1421403536 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421403533 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)709407846

LCCN:

2011011299

Locations:

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)