Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776 1923
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783319410593
Subjects: Turkey, history
Description: "This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon's positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience. It is a great sweep of a story: from Gibbon as standard textbook, through Lord Bryon the pro-Turkish poet, and Benjamin Disraeli the Romantic novelist of all things Eastern, followed by John Buchan's Greenmantle First World War espionage fantasies, and then Manchester Guardian reporter Arnold Toymbee narrating the fight for Turkish independence."--Page [4] of cover.