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Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.

Sustained engagement with the Islamic world during this period also
encompassed the Persian and Mediterranean realms bordering the Ottomans,
though involvement with the Islamic empire of the Mughals was minimal.2 These
ties affected ...

The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture

This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her traces and surprising transformations continued to haunt early modern England. Combining historical analysis and contemporary theory, including issues raised by psychoanalysis and feminist theology, Gary Waller examines the literature, theology and popular culture associated with Mary in the transition between late medieval and early modern England. He contrasts a variety of pre-Reformation texts and events, including popular mariology, poetry, tales, drama, pilgrimage and the emerging 'New Learning', with later sixteenth-century ruins, songs, ballads, Petrarchan poetry, the works of Shakespeare and other texts where the Virgin's presence or influence, sometimes surprisingly, can be found.

THE VIRGIN MARY IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE The Virgin Mary was one of the most
powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity
. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as
Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized
Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her
traces ...

Early Modern English Literature

Providing comprehensive background material on the contexts in which early modern literary texts were produced and consumed, this work unlocks the distinctive social practices, economic structures and modes of behaviour that give these texts their meaning.

Rhetoric, political engagement and More's Utopia Thomas Wilson opened his
treatise on The Arte of Rhetorique (1553) – the first English manual of eloquence
to be arranged on classical lines – by drawing a distinction between 'infinite' and '
definite' questions. The former were abstract considerations, such as 'whether it
be best to marie, or to live single'. The latter focused on particulars; for example, '
whether now it be best here in Englande, for a Prieste to Marie, or to live single'.