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Author:

Andrea, Bernadette Diane.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 185 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--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.
Turkey--Historiography.--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Historiography.
Turkey--In literature.
Orientalism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Turkey--History--History--16th century.
Turkey--History--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

ISBN:

0521867649 (cased)
9780521867641 (cased)

LCCN:

2008297454

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)