Significant Others: The Fashioning of Orientalism in the Travelogues of 18th-Century British Women
Journal: JMU Scholoraly Commons (James Madison University)
Year: 2017

British fascination with the Ottoman Empire was not a new phenomenon in the 18 th Century.To the Occident, the Orient had always been a source of mystery, intrigue, and romance.Regardless of whether the desire for knowledge of the unknown Other came from colonial interest or a sense of scientific and anthropologic duty, travelers to the empire filled their journals and letters with observations of all aspects of Ottoman life.These crossers of cultural boundaries were self-proclaimed experts on t