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Intelligent Souls?: Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

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Intelligent Souls?: Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature - Cahill, Samara Anne
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Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century British culture. Samara Anne Cahill's ambitious study explores two separate but overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam in the eighteenth century 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, and the other tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian ...

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Intelligent Souls?: Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature 2019, Bucknell University Press

ISBN-13: 9781684480975

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Intelligent Souls?: Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature 2019, Bucknell University Press

ISBN-13: 9781684480982

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