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The Other Empire: British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire

The Other Empire: British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire

Turhan, Filiz

Hardcover

Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 0415968054
ISBN13: 9780415968058
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 2003
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
This book contributes to the body of postcolonial scholarship that explores the growth of imperial culture in the Romantic and early Victorian periods by focusing on the literary uses of the figure of the Turk and the Ottoman Empire. Filiz Turham analyzes Turkish Tales, novels, and travelogues from c. 1789-1846 to expose the three primary ways in which the Ottoman Other served as a strong counterimage of empire for both liberal and conservative writers. Through readings of such authors as Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Craven the authors identifies the Ottoman Empire as a particularly flexible trope that could be presented as noth familiar or foreign, Same or Other in a way that reflected back onto England its own vexed attitude toward its imperial success.

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