Abstract
The article adopts a historicist approach in its focus on the representations of
Eastern women in Early Modern English Literature. It explores specific
historical documents and literary texts of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
published in England, for the light that they shed on the manners and mores of
oriental societies, particularly those of Muslim nations like that of the Turks,
Persians and Central Asian royal households. The unique perspective taken by
the cited British playwrights, travelers, diplomatic and trade missions, sheds
some light on the underlying motives of the early anthropological and
sociological studies of the Eastern nations at that early stage of Anglo-oriental
negotiations in the context of the role played by women who were consorts of
Kings and Sultans. In doing so this article raises questions about present day
feminist assumptions of western critics writing in the post-colonial era who have
not taken sufficient notice of this pre-colonial period when the imperial powers
lay in the Eastern part of the world, and the British were not a significant
imperial presence in the East.
Farhana Wazir Khan. (2011) IMAGES OF EASTERN WOMEN IN THE TRAVEL HISTORIES AND LITERARY TEXTS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 50, Issue 1.
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