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Andrea's thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women, Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa, Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Andrea, Bernadette Diane (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Islam and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century. Islam and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Women in literature. Girls in literature. Islamic civilization in literature. Islam in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: can the subaltern signify? Tracing the lives of girls and women from the Islamic world in British literature and culture, c. 1500-1630
The "presences of women" from the Islamic world in late medieval Scotland and early modern England
The Islamic world and the construction of early modern Englishwomen's authorship: Queen Elizabeth I, the Tartar girl, and the Tartar-Indian woman
The Islamic world and the construction of early modern Englishwomen's authorship: Lady Mary Wroth, the Tartar-Persian princess, and the Tartar king
Signifying gender and Islam in early Shakespeare: Henry VIII or All is true (1613) and British "Masques of blackness"
The intersecting paths of two women from the Islamic world: Teresa Sampsonia, Mariam Khanim, and the East India Company.