Engaging the Ottoman Empire : : Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815 / / Daniel O'Quinn.

Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Bookmarking his analysis with the conflict leading to the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz on one end and the 1815 bid for Greek independence on t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Frontlist Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (552 p.) :; 29 color, 101 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. AFTER PEACE
  • Chapter 1. Theatrum Pacis: Mediating the Treaty of Karlowitz
  • Chapter 2. A Costume Empire: Describing the Social Matrix
  • Chapter 3. At the Limits of Verisimilitude: Vanmour’s Allegories of Social Cohesion
  • Chapter 4. Critical Alignments: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Classical Counter-Memory
  • PART II. BESIDE WAR
  • Chapter 5. “As Are Yet to Be Seen”: The Dilettanti’s Re-enchantment of the Ionian World
  • Chapter 6. Exoriare Aliquis: Choiseul-Gouffier’s Needs and Lady Craven’s Desires
  • Chapter 7. Narrative Fragments and Object Choices: Antiquities, War, and the Vestiges of Love
  • Chapter 8. Critical Disjunctions: The Intersection of Form, Affect, and Empire in Melling and Byron
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments