The lives of girls and women from the Islamic world in early modern British literature and culture /
Andrea's thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women, Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa, Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl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 fro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Andrea's thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women, Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa, Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl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 analyzing 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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| Physical Description: | xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1487501250 9781487501259 |