Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century [electronic resource] / by Emily M.N. Kugler.
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TextSeries: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 209.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: xi, 212 pSubject(s): - 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 -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Public opinion
- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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- DA485 .K84 2012
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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.