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Marr, Timothy Worthington. "Imagining Ishmael Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville," American Studies, Yale University, Fall 1997.
This dissertation explores how early Americans articulated the Islamic world as a means of orienting the direction of their national project the morality of their cultural institutions, and the shape of their romantic imaginations. Two chapters of the study chart how Islamic orientalism enabled Protestants to contain Islam within Biblical eschatology and Americans to equate Muslim government with the despotism they sought to depose in the Mediterranean. Two more chapters investigate how antebellum reformers imported orientalist images of Islam into the rhetorics of anti-slavery, temperance, and anti-Mormonism to register comparative cultural criticism. Three final chapters explore Herman Melville’s versatile engagement with the different valences of islamicism in his life and literary worlds.
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