Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garcia, Humberto, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Islam in literature.
Islamic countries > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > Islamic countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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