Looking East : English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 / Gerald MacLean.
| Author/creator |
MacLean, Gerald M., 1952- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
| Description | xiii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction : Islam, the Ottomans and early modern England -- The English encounter the Ottoman world -- The English abroad : travellers, traders, captives and colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean -- Performing East and captive agency -- 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 -- 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 : by way of conclusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-289) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007021648 |
| ISBN | 0230019676 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780230019676 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR 129.T87 M329 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |