Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /
Garcia, Humberto, 1978-
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia. - 1 online resource (367 pages)
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9781421405322 (ebook)
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
Islam in literature.
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.
Electronic books.
PR149.I8 / G37 2011eb
820.9/38297
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia. - 1 online resource (367 pages)
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9781421405322 (ebook)
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
Islam in literature.
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.
Electronic books.
PR149.I8 / G37 2011eb
820.9/38297