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

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”.

List of contents

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

About the author

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). 

Summary

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”.

Product details

Authors	Samara Anne Cahill
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.05.2019
EAN	9781684480982
ISBN	978-1-68448-098-2
No. of pages	250
Series	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

Product details

• Authors: Samara Anne Cahill
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781684480982
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-098-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: 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