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Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century

Kugler, Emily M. N.

Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century [electronic resource] / by Emily M.N. Kugler. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. - xi, 212 p. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 209 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 209. .

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






National characteristics, English--History--18th century.
Turkeys--Foreign public opinion, British.
Public opinion--Great Britain.
Imperialism--History--18th century.


England--Civilization--18th century.
Turkey--History--Public opinion.--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Great Britain--History--18th century.


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