Bernadette Andrea is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

'Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature points readers in a new direction. The study of Anglo-Islamic relations has been dominated by the male perspective, and Andrea rightly alerts scholars to the need for bringing in the female perspective, from both the Ottoman (and Arab and Armenian and Circasian) East as well as the English.' Clio

• Introduction: 'the borrowed veil': reassessing gender studies of early modern England and Islam; 1. Early modern Queens and Anglo-Ottoman trade; 2. The imaginary geographies of Mary Wroth's Urania; 3. Early Quaker women, the missionary position, and Mediterraneanism; 4. The female wits and the genealogy of feminist Orientalism; 5. The scandal of polygamy in Delarivier Manley's Roman à Clef; Coda: Arab women revisit Mary Wortley Montagu's hammam.

Bernadette Andrea is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

'Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature points readers in a new direction. The study of Anglo-Islamic relations has been dominated by the male perspective, and Andrea rightly alerts scholars to the need for bringing in the female perspective, from both the Ottoman (and Arab and Armenian and Circasian) East as well as the English.' Clio

• Introduction: 'the borrowed veil': reassessing gender studies of early modern England and Islam; 1. Early modern Queens and Anglo-Ottoman trade; 2. The imaginary geographies of Mary Wroth's Urania; 3. Early Quaker women, the missionary position, and Mediterraneanism; 4. The female wits and the genealogy of feminist Orientalism; 5. The scandal of polygamy in Delarivier Manley's Roman à Clef; Coda: Arab women revisit Mary Wortley Montagu's hammam.

Bernadette Andrea is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

'Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature points readers in a new direction. The study of Anglo-Islamic relations has been dominated by the male perspective, and Andrea rightly alerts scholars to the need for bringing in the female perspective, from both the Ottoman (and Arab and Armenian and Circasian) East as well as the English.' Clio

• Introduction: 'the borrowed veil': reassessing gender studies of early modern England and Islam; 1. Early modern Queens and Anglo-Ottoman trade; 2. The imaginary geographies of Mary Wroth's Urania; 3. Early Quaker women, the missionary position, and Mediterraneanism; 4. The female wits and the genealogy of feminist Orientalism; 5. The scandal of polygamy in Delarivier Manley's Roman à Clef; Coda: Arab women revisit Mary Wortley Montagu's hammam.