Early modern England and Islamic worlds
By: edited by Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Early modern cultural studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230115422
Subjects: History; English literature; Islamic civilization in literature; Islam and literature; History and criticism; Islam in literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.