Washington Irving and Islam (eBook, PDF)

Critical Essays
Redaktion: Jalalzai, Zubeda

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Washington Irving and Islam contributes to understanding the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, valuable not only for studies of Washington Irving, American Literature, or Islam, but also for thinking through the role Islam and the "Orient" have played in American literature and history, a critical field receiving ever-increasing attention. The global context of Irving's work ties these essays together as does an understanding that his writings challenge easy classification of the Muslim other, and, indeed, challenge easy classification of Irving's own responses to that other. Washington Irving bestrides opposing positions as well as distant worlds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216328780
• Artikelnr.: 74842243

Autorenporträt

Zubeda Jalalzaiis professor of English at Rhode Island College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Washington Irving and Islam
Zubeda Jalalzai
Spanish Orientalism: Washington Irving and the Romance of the Moors Michael
Stevens
What Pious Moslem Writers Tell Us: Irving's Filtering of His Sources in
Mahomet and His Successors Ray Lacina
A Knickerbocker Prophet: Washington Irving's Americanization of "Mahomet"
Doyle Quiggle
Think Local, Act Global: The Development of Islam in Washington Irving's
Mahomet and His Successors Jeffrey Scraba
Irving's Cadijah and Women of Power in Salmagundi and MahometTracy Hoffman
Afterword: The Seal and Conclusion
Jeffrey Einboden