ENGLISH

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

By Bernadette Andrea

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0521867649, 9780521867641, 9780511394539
LCC
PR428.W63 A63 2007
Open Library ID
OL10437749M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
751 kB (768519 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
196\197
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

Similar books