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Autore |
Kugler Emily M. N |
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Titolo |
Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century [[electronic resource] /] / by Emily M.N. Kugler |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49648-7 |
9786613591715 |
90-04-22543-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 209 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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