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Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century
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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...
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.
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- Creator
- by Emily M.N. Kugler
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- English
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
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- xi, 212 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789004225435, 1280496487, 9004214224, 9786613591715, 9004225439, 9789004214224
- OCLC
- ocn764591362, ocn779828601
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The 'other' England: Ottoman influence on English identity -- Captivity, apostasy, and imperial anxieties: English fantasies and fears of the Ottoman influence -- Arabic castaways in the high and low churches: debating English Protestantism in the seventeenth-century Ibn Tufayl translations -- The Ottoman influence in Robinson Crusoe: failures of English imperial identity -- Race and romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the decline of the Ottoman influence -- "I am not what I am": reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787 -- Oriental princes and noble slaves: romance models of race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788 -- Conclusion: The continued anxieties of empire: after the Ottoman influence
Subjects
- England -- Civilization -- 18th century.
- National characteristics, English -- History -- 18th century.
- Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Public opinion.
- Turkey -- Foreign public opinion, British.
- Public opinion -- Great Britain.
- Imperialism -- History -- 18th century.
- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.