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In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the
colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the
historical roots of how the Muslim world figured in American
prophecy, politics, reform, fiction, art and dress. Marr argues
that perceptions of the Muslim world, long viewed not only as both
an anti-Christian and despotic threat but also as an exotic other,
held a larger place in domestic American concerns than previously
thought. Historical, literary, and imagined encounters with Muslim
history and practices provided a backdrop where different Americans
oriented the direction of their national project, the morality of
the social institutions, and the contours of their romantic
imaginations. This history sits as an important background to help
understand present conflicts between the Muslim world and the
United States.
In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the
colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the
historical roots of how the Muslim world figured in American
prophecy, politics, reform, fiction, art and dress. Marr argues
that perceptions of the Muslim world, long viewed not only as both
an anti-Christian and despotic threat but also as an exotic other,
held a larger place in domestic American concerns than previously
thought. Historical, literary, and imagined encounters with Muslim
history and practices provided a backdrop where different Americans
oriented the direction of their national project, the morality of
the social institutions, and the contours of their romantic
imaginations. This history sits as an important background to help
understand present conflicts between the Muslim world and the
United States.
A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick
conference The twenty-one essays collected in "Ungraspable Phantom"
are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the
150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays
reflect not only a range of problems and approaches but also the
cosmopolitan perspective of international scholarship. They offer
new thoughts on familiar topics: the novel's problematic structure,
its sources in and reinvention of the Bible, its Lacanian and
post-Freudian psychology, and its rhetoric. They also present fresh
information on new areas of interest: Melville's creative process,
law and jurisprudence, Freemasonry and labor, race, Latin
Americanism, and the Native American. Scholars, students, and
readers of Moby-Dick will find this collection of essays fresh and
insightful.
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