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Looking East, English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800, Gerald MacLean

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Looking East

bibliography

Gerald MacLean

English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800

Introduction : Islam, the Ottomans and early modern England -- Part one. Beginnings -- The English encounter the Ottoman world -- The English abroad : travellers, traders, captives and colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean -- Performing East and captive agency -- Part two. Writing the Ottoman world -- On turning Turk, or trying to : Robert Daborne's A Christian turn'd Turke -- The sultan's beasts : encountering Ottoman fauna -- The making of the British imperial subject -- Some literary impacts -- Learn of a Turk: restoration culture and the Ottoman Empire -- A view from the West : young American writing about the Maghrib -- A view from the East : Don Juan in England -- Epilogue