| The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture Contributor(s): Andrea, Bernadette (Author) |
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ISBN: 1487501250 ISBN-13: 9781487501259 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $74.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - History | Modern - 16th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 17th Century |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 2016590578 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bernadette Andrea's groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrea's thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women: Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa; Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl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 analysing 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Andrea, Bernadette: - Bernadette Andrea is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |