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Women and Islam in early modern English literature /

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 Otto...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Andrea, Bernadette Diane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.