Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /Humberto Garcia.
Garcia, Humberto, 1978-
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /Humberto Garcia. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (368 pages)
Includes bibliographies 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
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Islam in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
Islam in literature.
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.
"Multi-User"
Electronic Books.
PR149 / .I853 2011
Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /Humberto Garcia. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (368 pages)
Includes bibliographies 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
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Islam in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries.
Islam in literature.
Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain.
"Multi-User"
Electronic Books.
PR149 / .I853 2011