Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /
Garcia, Humberto, 1978-
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (368 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.
The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.
English.
9781421405322 1421405326
ebc3318766
1700-1899
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Islam in literature.
Siècle des Lumières--Grande-Bretagne.
Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
Islam dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Enlightenment
Islam in literature
International relations
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
Great Britain
Islamic countries
"Multi-User"
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR149.I8 / G37 2011
820.9/38297
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (368 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.
The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.
English.
9781421405322 1421405326
ebc3318766
1700-1899
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Islam in literature.
Siècle des Lumières--Grande-Bretagne.
Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
Islam dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Enlightenment
Islam in literature
International relations
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
Great Britain
Islamic countries
"Multi-User"
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR149.I8 / G37 2011
820.9/38297