Intelligent Souls? - Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Informationen zum Autor SAMARA A. CAHILL is an assistant professor of eighteenth-century English literature at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is the coeditor of Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century and the the book review editor of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early-Modern Era (both Bucknell University Press).  Klappentext Offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of "feminist orientalism”. Zusammenfassung Offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism”. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Foreign Intelligence ... 1 Part I: Islam and the Trinitarian Controversy Chapter 1: The Negative Ideal ... 23 Part II: Feminist Orientalism Chapter 2: Minding the Gap ... 81 Chapter 3: The Canal of Pleasure ... 146 Chapter 4: A "Foreign and Uninteresting" Subject ... 227 Chapter 5: The "Mahometan Strain" ... 262 Epilogue: Save Our Souls? ... 308 Bibliography ... 315

Product details

• Authors: Samara Anne Cahill
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781684480975
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-097-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies