Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century / by Emily M.N. Kugler.
This book challenges concepts of an ahistorically powerful England and shows both that the intermingling of Islamic and English Protestant identity was a recurring theme of the eighteenth century, and that this cultural mixing was a topic of debate and anxiety in the English cultural imagination. It...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 209 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 209. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.