Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2007-09-20
- Pages
- 210
- ISBN
- 9781843841272
- Book Title
- Staging Islam in England : Drama and Culture, 1640-1685
- Book Series
- Studies in Renaissance Literature Ser.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Author
- Matthew Birchwood
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Religion
- Topic
- Islam / History, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Weight
- 21.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 210 Pages
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture, 1640-1685 by Matthew Birchwood
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This stimulating book will be welcomed by historians, literary scholars, and anyone interested in the history of the English fascination with Islam and the cultural exoticism associated with the East.’ PROFESSOR GERALD MACLEAN Transmitted via the mechanisms of trade and diplomacy and reflected through stage and press, England’s cultural encounters with Islam – its peoples, its history, its territories – were fundamental to the ways in which the nation constructed itself through all the tribulations of the seventeenth century; a preoccupation with Islam permeated religious, political, diplomatic and commercial discourses to a degree that has not been recognised by standard accounts of the period. This book traces engagement with Islam in English political and dramatic life from the inauguration of the Long Parliament until the death of Charles II. It explores the reception and representation of Islam in a wide range of English writings of the period, employing close textual and historical research to trace the development of the ‘Turk’ from the archetype of cruelty and treachery to the complex and often contradictory figure of mid-century discourse. Throughout, it argues that Islam provided a repository of meanings ripe for transposition to Revolutionary and Restoration England, a process that transfigured the ‘East’ through the lens of English politics and vice-versa.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
ISBN-10
1843841274
ISBN-13
9781843841272
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57412339
Product Key Features
Book Title
Staging Islam in England : Drama and Culture, 1640-1685
Number of Pages
210 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Islam / History, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion
Book Series
Studies in Renaissance Literature Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
21.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
This book has the virtue of presenting a compelling counter-narrative to Edward Said’s monolithic interpretation of the East, contributing to ongoing scholarly research about the figurative centrality of Islam in the English literature and culture of the early modern period. […] A well-written book that combines historically-informed close readings of key texts with original research. […] Undoubtedly, [the author’s] pioneering scholarship will be of lasting importance for those who are interested in understanding the reception of Islam in mid and late seventeenth-century drama and culture, a timely topic that has been up to now poorly conceived and too often neglected. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS A very useful study of English drama and its allusions to the Ottoman and Safavid Empires. JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES A valuable contribution to the ongoing reassessment of the political and cultural relations between early modern Western Europe and the Islamic Orient. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY Convincingly demonstrates how writers of this period engaged the “Turk” in ways that were distinct and dynamic. JOURNAL OF BRITISH HISTORY
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
Volume 21
Target Audience
Trade
Volume Number
21
Dewey Decimal
822.40938297
Lc Classification Number
PS
Table of Content
IntroductionCultural Encounters between England and Islam in the Seventeenth Century: A TopographyFraming ‘an English Alchoran’: The Famous Tragedie of Charles I and the first English translation of the Qur’anOrienting the Monarch: Tyranny and Tragedy in Robert Baron’s Mirza and John Denham’s The SophyTurning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant’s The Siege of RhodesToleration, Trade and English Mahometanism in the Aftermath of RestorationPlotting the Succession: Exclusion, Oates and the News from ViennaConclusion: ‘If we ourselves, would from our selves exam’ne us’BibliographyIndex
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