Lives of girls and women from the Islamic world in early modern British literature and culture

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Lives of girls and women from the Islamic world in early modern British literature and culture

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Bernadette Andrea

Creator

• Andrea, Bernadette Diane
• Andrea, Bernadette Diane

Author

• Andrea, Bernadette Diane
• Andrea, Bernadette Diane

Subject

• Islam and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Islam in literature
• Islamic civilization in literature
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Women in literature
• Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
• English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Girls in literature
• Islam and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Andrea's thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women: Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa; Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl acquired from Islamic Central Asia; Teresa Sampsonia, a Circassian from the Safavid Empire; and Mariam Khanim, an Armenian from the Mughal Empire. By analysing these women's lives and their impact on the literary and cultural life of proto-colonial England, Andrea reveals that they are simultaneously significant constituents of the emerging Anglo-centric discourse of empire and cultural agents in their own right. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture advances a methodology based on microhistory, cross-cultural feminist studies, and postcolonial approaches to the early modern period."--

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Provided by publisher

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YDX

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography