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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790015103321

Autore

Kugler Emily M. N

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49648-7

9786613591715

90-04-22543-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 209

Disciplina

303.48/24105609033

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 charts the way representation of England and the Ottomans changed as England grew into an imperial power. By focusing on texts dealing with the Ottomans, the author argues that we can observe the turning point in public perceptions, the moments when English subjects began to believe British imperial power was a reality rather than an aspiration.