The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture. Bernadette Andrea. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. xii + 250 pp. $65. ISBN 978-1-4875-0125-9..
Résumé
Bernadette Andrea' s previous works, including Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (2007), had already established her as an authority in the fields of early modern feminism and orientalism. Her most recent book here confirms that position. Using the methodologies of micro-history, feminist studies, and postcolonialism, the book is organized around a number of case studies of gendered subalterns from Islamic lands who, with various degrees of volition, were displaced to England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.