Samuel Johnson's attitude toward Islam
Subtitle: a study of his Oriental readings and writings
By: Ghazi Q. Nassir ; with a foreword by Myron Yeager
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773439177
Subjects: Orientalism in literature; East and West in literature; Knowledge; Eurocentrism in literature; Johnson, Samuel,; Islam; Civilization, Arab, in literature; In literature; Orient; Islamic civilization in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Representations of the Orient before Samuel Johnson; title: Samuel Johnson's Oriental reading; title: Samuel Johnson and his attitude toward Islam; title: Irene : Islam is a menace, not "an object of curiosity"; title: The perception of the Orient in Rasselas; title: Johnson's Orientalism in the short Oriental tales in The rambler and idler; title: Appendix A. A sample of Johnson's books on the Orient; title: Appendix B. Another sample of Johnson's books on the Orient.