Remapping the Mediterranean world in early modern English writings
By: edited by Goran V. Stanivukovic.
Contributors: Stanivukovic, Goran V.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Early modern cultural studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781403975577
Subjects: English literature -- Mediterranean influences; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Multiculturalism in literature; Imperialism in literature; Mercantile system in literature; English literature -- Turkic influences; Islam in literature; Mediterranean Region -- In literature; Turkey -- In literature; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Description: This collection brings together thirteen new essays that examine England?s fascination with, and fantasies about, the Mediterranean in the early modern period. The essays in this volume employ the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as an idea that challenges boundaries between the East and the West. It does so by emphasizing the Ottoman Mediterranean and by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The Afterword, written by an Ottomanist, engages in a dialogue with literary scholars and offers new pathways in the study of the Mediterranean, especially its eastern part.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.