Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /
Garcia, Humberto
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012 - xviii, 346 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-333) and index
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
9781421403533 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421403536 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Islam in literature
English literature--History and criticism--18th century
English literature--History and criticism--19th century
Enlightenment--Great Britain
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012 - xviii, 346 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-333) and index
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
9781421403533 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421403536 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Islam in literature
English literature--History and criticism--18th century
English literature--History and criticism--19th century
Enlightenment--Great Britain
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain