Garcia, Humberto creator text bibliography mdu Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press c2012 2012 monographic eng

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xviii, 346 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. 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 specialized Humberto Garcia Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-333) and index Islam in literature English literature 18th century History and criticism English literature 19th century History and criticism Enlightenment Great Britain Great Britain Relations Islamic countries Islamic countries Relations Great Britain 9781421403533 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421403536 (hardcover : alk. paper) UMP 120704 20251125093045.0 vtls000062792