Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long Eighteenth Century / by Emily M.N. Kugler.

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Kugler, Emily M. N

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TextSeries: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 209.Publication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789004225435
9004225439
9781280496486
1280496487
9789004214224
9004214224

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century.DDC classification:

303.48/24105609033 23

LOC classification:

DA485

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15.70
15.75

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The 'Other' England: Ottoman Influence on English Identity; Part One; Chapter One Captivity, Apostasy, and Imperial Anxieties: English Fantasies and Fears of the Ottoman Influence; Chapter Two Arabic Castaways in the High and Low Churches: Debating English Protestantism in the Seventeenth-Century Ibn Tufayl Translations; Chapter Three The Ottoman Influence in Robinson Crusoe: Failures of English Imperial Identity; Part Two; Chapter Four Race and Romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the Decline of the Ottoman Influence.

Chapter Five "I Am Not What I Am": Reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787Chapter Six Oriental Princes and Noble Slaves: Romance Models of Race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788; Conclusion: The Continued Anxieties of Empire: After the Ottoman Influence; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: By focusing on eighteenth-century English textual representations of the Ottomans, we can observe the turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration.

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By focusing on eighteenth-century English textual representations of the Ottomans, we can observe the turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration.