Looking East: English Writing And The Ottoman Empire Before 1800
by Gerald Maclean /
2007 / English / PDF
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List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction : Islam, the Ottomans and early modern England Part one. Beginnings The English encounter the Ottoman world The English abroad : travellers, traders, captives and colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean Performing East and captive agency Part two. Writing the Ottoman world On turning Turk, or trying to : national identity in Robert Daborne's A Christian turn'd Turke The sultan's beasts : encountering Ottoman fauna The making of the British imperial subject Some literary impacts Learn of a Turk: restoration culture and the Ottoman Empire A view from the West : young American writing about the Maghrib A view from the East : Don Juan in England Epilogue Works cited Index.
