Intelligent Souls?
Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Seiten
2019
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-098-2 (ISBN)
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-098-2 (ISBN)
Offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism”.
Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. 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 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.
Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. 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 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.
SAMARA A. CAHILL is an assistant professor of eighteenth-century English literature at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is the coeditor of Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century and the the book review editor of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early-Modern Era (both Bucknell University Press).
Introduction: Foreign Intelligence … 1
Part I: Islam and the Trinitarian Controversy
Chapter 1: The Negative Ideal … 23
Part II: Feminist Orientalism
Chapter 2: Minding the Gap … 81
Chapter 3: The Canal of Pleasure … 146
Chapter 4: A “Foreign and Uninteresting” Subject … 227
Chapter 5: The “Mahometan Strain” … 262
Epilogue: Save Our Souls? … 308
Bibliography … 315
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.05.2019 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 463 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68448-098-1 / 1684480981 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-098-2 / 9781684480982 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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