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Author Kugler, Emily M. N.

Title Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century [electronic resource] / by Emily M.N. Kugler.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description xi, 212 p.
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 209
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 209.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The 'other' England: Ottoman influence on English identity -- Captivity, apostasy, and imperial anxieties: English fantasies and fears of the Ottoman influence -- Arabic castaways in the high and low churches: debating English Protestantism in the seventeenth-century Ibn Tufayl translations -- The Ottoman influence in Robinson Crusoe: failures of English imperial identity -- Race and romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the decline of the Ottoman influence -- "I am not what I am": reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787 -- Oriental princes and noble slaves: romance models of race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788 -- Conclusion: The continued anxieties of empire: after the Ottoman influence.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject National characteristics, English -- History -- 18th century.
Turkeys -- Foreign public opinion, British.
Public opinion -- Great Britain.
Imperialism -- History -- 18th century.
England -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Public opinion.
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004214224 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004225435 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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