Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia.

Author/creator Garcia, Humberto, 1978-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 346 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-333) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011011299
ISBN9781421403533 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1421403536 (hardcover : alk. paper)