ISBN:
9789004225435
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser. v.209
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/24105609033
Keywords:
Turkey - Foreign public opinion, British
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
By focusing on eighteenth-century English textual representations of the Ottomans, we can observe the turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The 'Other' England: Ottoman Influence on English Identity -- Part One -- Chapter One Captivity, Apostasy, and Imperial Anxieties: English Fantasies and Fears of the Ottoman Influence -- Chapter Two Arabic Castaways in the High and Low Churches: Debating English Protestantism in the Seventeenth-Century Ibn Tufayl Translations -- Chapter Three The Ottoman Influence in Robinson Crusoe: Failures of English Imperial Identity -- Part Two -- Chapter Four Race and Romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the Decline of the Ottoman Influence -- Chapter Five "I Am Not What I Am": Reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787 -- Chapter Six Oriental Princes and Noble Slaves: Romance Models of Race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788 -- Conclusion: The Continued Anxieties of Empire: After the Ottoman Influence -- Bibliography -- Index.
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