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.
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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.