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Author Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Title Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (367 pages)
text rdacontent
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Islam in literature.
Great Britain -- Relations -- Islamic countries.
Islamic countries -- Relations -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781421403533
9781421405322 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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