Author: Anna Suranyi
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874139983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings.
The Genius of the English Nation
Author: Anna Suranyi
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874139983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874139983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings.
Labourism and the English Genius
Author: Gregory Elliott
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860916710
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Labour's fourth successive electoral defeat in 1992 rekindled the muffled controversy over its future.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860916710
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Labour's fourth successive electoral defeat in 1992 rekindled the muffled controversy over its future.
Letters on the English Nation
Author: John Shebbeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Letters on the English Nation : by "Batista Angeloni", a Jesuit, who Resided Many Years in London. Translated from the Original Italian, by the Author of the Marriage Act a Novel. in Two Volumes. The Second Edition with Corrections
The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen
Author: George Godfrey Cunningham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The Beauty of the Houri
Author: Nerina Rustomji
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190249366
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A captivating look at the history of the pure females of Islamic paradise known as the houri The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001. Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals demonstrates how the ambiguous reward of the houri, mentioned in the Qur?an and developed in Islamic theological writings, has gained a distinctive place in the cultural eye from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The houri had multiple functions in Islamic texts that ranged from caretaker, to pure companion, to personal entertainment. French, English, and American writers used the houri to critique Islam and Muslim societies, while also adopting the houri as a model of feminine beauty. Unlike earlier texts that presented different forms of the houri or universalized the houri for all women, writings about the houri after September 11th offer contradictory messages about Islam. In the twenty-first century, the image of the houri has come to symbolize a reward for violence and the possibility of gender parity. As a cosmic figure that inspires enduring questions about the promise of paradise and the idealized feminine form, the houri has a singular past and broad potential for future interpretation. The Beauty of the Houri narrates an intellectual history of the houri and offers a contemporary account of how theological ambiguity has led to different interpretations of this powerfully enduring Islamic concept.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190249366
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A captivating look at the history of the pure females of Islamic paradise known as the houri The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001. Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals demonstrates how the ambiguous reward of the houri, mentioned in the Qur?an and developed in Islamic theological writings, has gained a distinctive place in the cultural eye from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The houri had multiple functions in Islamic texts that ranged from caretaker, to pure companion, to personal entertainment. French, English, and American writers used the houri to critique Islam and Muslim societies, while also adopting the houri as a model of feminine beauty. Unlike earlier texts that presented different forms of the houri or universalized the houri for all women, writings about the houri after September 11th offer contradictory messages about Islam. In the twenty-first century, the image of the houri has come to symbolize a reward for violence and the possibility of gender parity. As a cosmic figure that inspires enduring questions about the promise of paradise and the idealized feminine form, the houri has a singular past and broad potential for future interpretation. The Beauty of the Houri narrates an intellectual history of the houri and offers a contemporary account of how theological ambiguity has led to different interpretations of this powerfully enduring Islamic concept.
Letters concerning the English Nation. Translated by John Lockman
Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s
Author: Angela Keane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. As women were cast into the feminine, maternal role in Romantic national discourse, women like these who defined themselves in other terms found themselves exiled - sometimes literally - from the nation. These wandering women did not rest easily in the family-romance of Romantic nationalism nor could they be reconciled with the models of literary authorship that emerged in the 1790s.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. As women were cast into the feminine, maternal role in Romantic national discourse, women like these who defined themselves in other terms found themselves exiled - sometimes literally - from the nation. These wandering women did not rest easily in the family-romance of Romantic nationalism nor could they be reconciled with the models of literary authorship that emerged in the 1790s.
The English Genius
Author: Hugh Kingsmill
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Making of English National Identity
Author: Krishan Kumar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521777360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521777360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.