Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds [electronic resource] /
Andrea, Bernadette.editor.
McJannet, Linda.editor.
The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Series page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Islamic Worlds in Early Modern English Literature; 1 From Maurice to Muhammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism; 2 Islam, Race, and Political Legitimacy in Ralegh's The Life and Death of Mahomet; 3 Persian Icons, Shi'a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage; 4 The Tartar King's Masque and Performances of Imperial Desire in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania
5 Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India6 "by my owne experience or the Most probablest Relation off others": Manuscript Travel Writing and Peter Mundy's "Relation" of Constantinople (1617-20); 7 Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory; 8 "Now will I be a Turke": Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe's The Courageous Turk; 9 The Frontiers of Twelfth Night; 10 "A Turk's mustachio": Anglo-Islamic Traffic and Exotic London in Ben Jonson's Every Man out of His Humour and Entertainment at Britain's Burse
11 "Oranges and lemons say the bells of St. Clement's": Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London ComediesBibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.
Literature, Modern.
Literature   .
Middle East-History.
Middle Eastern literature.
Ethnology.
Islam.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
History of the Middle East.
Middle Eastern Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Islam.