The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined ‚traffic‘ between England and the ‚Islamic worlds‘ it encountered and constructed.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Islamic Worlds in Early Modern English Literature – Bernadette Andrea and Linda Mc Jannet PART I: CHARTING ARABIA AND THE ‚ARABIAN PROPHET‘ From Maurice to Mohammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism – Andrew Moran Demonizing Spain in Ralegh’s The Life and Death of Mahomet – Dennis Britton PART II: ENGLISH VENTURES INTO ‚PERSIANATE‘ CULTURES Persian Icons, Shi’a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage – Javad Ghatta Tartar Masques in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomeries Urania, Part II – Bernadette Andrea Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India – Bindu Malieckal PART III: ‚TURK PLAYS‘ AND ENGLISH IDENTITY FORMATION ‚ By my Owne Experience or the Most probablest Relation off Others‘: Peter Mundy’s MS Account of Constantinople (1617-20) – Philip Palmer Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory – Annaliese Connolly ‚Now will I be a Turke‘: Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe’s The Courageous Turk – Joel Slotkin PART IV: ENGLAND’S TRAFFIC WITH ITS EASTS The Frontiers of Twelfth Nigh t – Su Fang Ng ‚A Turk’s mustachio‘: Anglo-Islamic Exchange and the Development of Urban Character in Ben Jonson’s City Comedies – Justin Kolb ‚Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clement’s‘: Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies – Linda Mc Jannet
Über den Autor
LINDA MCJANNET is a Professor of English at Bentley University, USA.
BERNADETTE ANDREA is a Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.