The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Einboden is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. Klappentext Uncovering Islam's formative impact on U.S. literary origins, this book traces the influence of Arabic and Persian literature in America, from the Revolution beginnings to Reconstruction. Focusing on informal engagements and intimate exchanges, Jeffrey Einboden excavates fresh witnesses to early American engagement with the Muslim world. Zusammenfassung Uncovering Islam's formative impact on U.S. literary origins, Jeffrey Einboden traces neglected genealogies of Islamic reception from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Privileging informal engagements and intimate exchanges, the book excavates personal appeals to Islamic sources by pivotal figures of the early nation--Ezra Stiles, William Bentley, Washington Irving, Lydia Maria Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson--and discovers Muslim discourse woven into the familiar fabric of their letters and sermons, journals and journalism, memoirs and marginalia. Recovering unpublished manuscripts and material witnesses to early U.S. engagement with the Muslim world, Einboden argues that Islamic literature and Middle Eastern languages catalyzed authorial identities in early America, acting as vehicles of artistic reflection, religious contemplation, and political liberation. Reaching to the Middle East to circumvent Europe, key American authors chart new cultural alternatives in their autobiographic prose and poetry, mirroring the defining struggles of the country's first decades through domestic approaches to the Qu'ran, Hadith, and Sufi sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: "Blessed Be Allah, Most Fair": Ezra Stiles's Arabic Revolutions Chapter 2: "I most sincerely wish an Arabic Manuscript of the Koran": William Bentley's Islamic Archives Chapter 3: "Intermingled with texts of the Koran": Washington Irving's Moorish Renovations Chapter 4: "To look at the Koran through his spectacles": The Muslim Progress of Lydia Maria Child Chapter 5: "He knows the Koran by heart": The Sufi Circulations of Ralph Waldo Emerson Appendix Notes Bibliography Index ...

Auteur
Jeffrey Einboden is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University.

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Uncovering Islam's formative impact on U.S. literary origins, this book traces the influence of Arabic and Persian literature in America, from the Revolution beginnings to Reconstruction. Focusing on informal engagements and intimate exchanges, Jeffrey Einboden excavates fresh witnesses to early American engagement with the Muslim world.

Résumé
Uncovering Islam's formative impact on U.S. literary origins, Jeffrey Einboden traces neglected genealogies of Islamic reception from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Privileging informal engagements and intimate exchanges, the book excavates personal appeals to Islamic sources by pivotal figures of the early nation--Ezra Stiles, William Bentley, Washington Irving, Lydia Maria Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson--and discovers Muslim discourse woven into the familiar fabric of their letters and sermons, journals and journalism, memoirs and marginalia. Recovering unpublished manuscripts and material witnesses to early U.S. engagement with the Muslim world, Einboden argues that Islamic literature and Middle Eastern languages catalyzed authorial identities in early America, acting as vehicles of artistic reflection, religious contemplation, and political liberation. Reaching to the Middle East to circumvent Europe, key American authors chart new cultural alternatives in their autobiographic prose and poetry, mirroring the defining struggles of the country's first decades through domestic approaches to the Qu'ran, Hadith, and Sufi sources.

Contenu

• Acknowledgements

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: "Blessed Be Allah, Most Fair": Ezra Stiles's Arabic Revolutions

• Chapter 2: "I most sincerely wish an Arabic Manuscript of the Koran": William Bentley's Islamic Archives

• Chapter 3: "Intermingled with texts of the Koran": Washington Irving's Moorish Renovations

• Chapter 4: "To look at the Koran through his spectacles": The Muslim Progress of Lydia Maria Child

• Chapter 5: "He knows the Koran by heart": The Sufi Circulations of Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Appendix

• Notes

• Bibliography

• Index