Looking east [Elektronisk resurs] English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 / Gerald MacLean.

• List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Islam, the Ottomans and Early Modern England PART 1: 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 2: WRITING THE OTTOMAN WORLD On Turning Turk, or Trying to: National Identity in Robert Daborne's A Christian Turn'd Turke The Sultan's Beasts: Encountering Ottoman Fauna The Making of the British Imperial Subject PART 3: 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.

• Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions. Engagingly written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth. -- Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions at a time when the English were seeking to find a place for themselves in the larger world beyond ther insular realm. Engagingly written in an accessible style that will appeal to non-academic readers as well as scholars, this book demonstrates how the so-called 'conflict of civilizations' separating the Muslim East from the Christian West is a false and dangerous myth. 
• 'Looking East sweeps aside the distortions of centuries of national history to reveal how our identity has been shaped by the myriad contacts between Britons and Ottomans' - Dr Caroline Finkel, author of Osman's Dream: A History of the Ottoman Empire' 'Looking East is a major contribution to the scholarship on English- and Scottish- interaction with the Ottoman world. The picture Gerald MacLean presents is far more complex and interesting than the somewhat simplistic image of East-West relations usually given by Edward Said and his followers. Instead of the old model of a straightforward binary dualism, MacLean has followed in the footsteps of Nabil Matar to present a Mediterranean world where what he calls 'mutuality, dialogue and reciprocity' predominate and where a significant number of Englishmen Turn'd Turk. This scholarly, surprising, erudite and quizzically humourous book looks set to change the way we think about early British interaction with the Muslim world.' - William Dalrymple, author of In Xanadu and From the Holy Mountain. 

Ämnesord

Travel and Tourism.  (eflch)

Travel writing  -- Turkey. (bicssc)

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval  -- Turkey. (bicssc)

European history  -- Turkey. (bicssc)

Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700  -- Turkey. (bicssc)

Social & cultural history  -- Turkey. (bicssc)

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