Women and Islam in early modern English literature

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

Author/creator	Andrea, Bernadette Diane
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description	x, 185 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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. English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700 --History and criticism. Turkey--History --Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 --Historiography. Turkey--Foreign public opinion, English --History --16th century. Turkey--Foreign public opinion, English --History --17th century. Turkey--In literature.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-179) and index.
ISBN	9780521867641 (hbk.)
ISBN	0521867649 (hbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR428.W63 A53 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold