Name: Intelligent Souls?: Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
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Author: Cahill, Samara Anne
ISBN: 9781684480982

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

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Physical Book

Author

Samara Anne Cahill

Publisher

Bucknell University Press

Language

English

Pages

244

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 16.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781684480982

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

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.

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