Bernadette Andrea

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of writings about the Ottoman Empire and other Islamic countries by women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780521867641
• ISBN-10: 0521867649
• Artikelnr.: 26370284

Autorenporträt

Bernadette Andrea is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'the borrowed veil': reassessing gender studies of early modern England and Islam
1. Early modern Queens and Anglo-Ottoman trade
2. The imaginary geographies of Mary Wroth's Urania
3. Early Quaker women, the missionary position, and Mediterraneanism
4. The female wits and the genealogy of feminist Orientalism
5. The scandal of polygamy in Delarivier Manley's Roman à Clef
Coda: Arab women revisit Mary Wortley Montagu's hammam.