Early modern England and Islamic worlds

by Andrea, Bernadette Diane McJannet, Linda

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"The essays in this book analyze range of genres--such as travel narratives, canonical and non-canonical drama, and prose romances--and consider geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire, including Mughal India, Safavid Persia, and the Muslim regions of Southeast and Central Asia. This collection deepens our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed"--

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Full title :Early modern England and Islamic worlds / edited by Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet.

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Publication Date:2011.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 272 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230115422, 023011542X
oclc:ocn692287897
LC Classification:PR428.I75
Dewey Decimal:820.9/358209767

Introduction: Islamic worlds in Early Modern English Literature / Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet -- From Maurice to Muhammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism / Andrew Moran -- Islam, race, and political legitimacy in Raleigh's The Life and Death of Mahomet / Dennis Austin Britton -- Persian icons, Shi'a Imams: liminal figures and hybrid Persian identities on the English stage / Javad Ghatta -- The Tartar king's masque and performances of imperial desire in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Bernadette Andrea -- Mariam Khan and the legacy of Mughal women in Early Modern Literature of India / Bindu Malieckal -- "by my owne experience or the Most probablest Relation off others": manuscript travel writing and Peter Mundy's "Relation" of Constantinople (1617-20) / Philip S. Palmer -- Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan repertory / Annaliese F. Connolly -- "Now will I be a Turke": performing Ottoman identity in the Thomas Goffe's The Courageous Turk / Joel Elliot Slotkin -- The frontiers of Twelfth Night / Su Fang Ng -- A Turk's mustachio": Anglo-Islamic traffic and exotic London in Ben Johnson's Every Man out of His Humour and Entertainment at Britain…

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Civilisation islamique dans la littérat… Criticism, interpretation, etc Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1500-… England Englisch English literature -- Early modern English literature -- History and criti… History Islam Islam and literature Islam and literature -- History -- 16th… Islam and literature -- History -- 17th… Islam dans la littérature Islam et littérature -- Histoire -- 16e… Islam et littérature -- Histoire -- 17e… Islam i litteraturen Islam in literature Islam och litteratur -- historia -- 150… Islamic civilization in literature LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern