Sleuthing to redeem : in pursuit of historical change in the late Ottoman Empire through contemporary historical novels
Journal: Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
Year: 2018

This thesis examines fictional and scholarly representations of historical changes in the Ottoman Empire during its final century, with an eye to understanding the dynamics that divided and united the empire across communities.In order better to understand the interplay between history and fiction, as well as the historical changes themselves, I have analysed, in the light of Ottoman history and historiography, a selection of contemporary Anglophone historical novels which have a strong componen