Looking East
Subtitle: English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800
By: Gerald MacLean
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780230019676
Subjects: Great Britain -- Relations -- Turkey; Turkey -- Relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-289) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Islam, the Ottomans and early modern England; title: The English encounter the Ottoman world; title: The English abroad : travellers, traders, captives and colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean; title: Performing East and captive agency; title: On turning Turk, or trying to : Robert Daborne's A Christian turn'd Turke; title: The sultan's beasts : encountering Ottoman fauna; title: The making of the British imperial subject; title: Learn of a Turk : restoration culture and the Ottoman Empire; title: A view from the West : young American writing about the Maghrib; title: A view from the East : Don Juan in England; title: Epilogue : by way of conclusion