Format:
1 Online-Ressource (232 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781684481019
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9781684480999
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9781684481002
Series Statement:
Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
Content:
Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara A. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents. A second strand tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft, Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the “otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Foreign Intelligence -- 1. The Negative Ideal -- 2. Minding the Gap -- 3. The Canal of Pleasure -- 4. A “Foreign and Uninteresting” Subject -- 5. The “Mahometan Strain” -- Epilogue: Save Our Souls? -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author -- Transits
Note:
restricted access online access with authorization star
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781684480982
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781684480975
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cahill, Samara Anne Intelligent souls? Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781684480975
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781684480982
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Orientalisierende Literatur
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Seele
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Geschichte 1700-1800
DOI:
10.36019/9781684481019
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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