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Autore: | Garcia Humberto <1978-> |
Titolo: | Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / / Humberto Garcia |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/38297 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
Enlightenment - Great Britain | |
Islam in literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Relations Islamic countries |
Islamic countries Relations Great Britain | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 |
ISBN: | 1-4214-0532-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809306603321 |
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