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Looking east: English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800

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ISBN	0230019676 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780230019676 (hbk.)
Author	MacLean, Gerald M. 1952-
Title	Looking east : English writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 / [by] Gerald MacLean
Publisher	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Physical desc.	[xiv], 300 p. ; ill. (b&w), map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-289) and index.
Contents	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 -- Pt. 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: by way of conclusion.
Subject	Travelers -- Turkey -- History
	Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
	East and West
	Great Britain -- Relations -- Turkey
	Turkey -- Relations -- Great Britain
	Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
	Turkey -- Description and travel

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