Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century
By: by Emily M.N. Kugler
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 209
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004214224
Subjects: Turkey; History; Public opinion; English National characteristics; British Foreign public opinion; Imperialism; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The 'other' England: Ottoman influence on English identity; title: Captivity, apostasy, and imperial anxieties: English fantasies and fears of the Ottoman influence; title: Arabic castaways in the high and low churches: debating English Protestantism in the seventeenth-century Ibn Tufayl translations; title: The Ottoman influence in Robinson Crusoe: failures of English imperial identity; title: Race and romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the decline of the Ottoman influence; title: "I am not what I am": reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787; title: Oriental princes and noble slaves: romance models of race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788; title: Conclusion: The continued anxieties of empire: after the Ottoman influence.