Intelligent Souls? : : Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature / / Samara Anne Cahill.

Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara A. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of "feminist orientalism." One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature...

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Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Foreign Intelligence
  • 1. The Negative Ideal
  • 2. Minding the Gap
  • 3. The Canal of Pleasure
  • 4. A "Foreign and Uninteresting" Subject
  • 5. The "Mahometan Strain"
  • Epilogue: Save Our Souls?
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author
  • Transits