Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / Humberto Garcia.
Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421405322
- 1421405326
- Enlightenment -- Great Britain
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Islam in literature
- Islamic countries -- Relations -- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Relations -- Islamic countries
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Enlightenment -- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Relations -- Islamic countries
- Islam in literature
- Islamic countries -- Relations -- Great Britain
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature
- Enlightenment
- Islam in literature
- International relations
- Great Britain
- Islamic countries
- 1700-1899
- "Multi-User"
- 820.9/38297 22
- PR149.I8 G37 2011
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.
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