LEADER 04018nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910452639703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07633-8 010 $a0-674-07628-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674076280 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038969 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25018218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11519949 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10990067 035 $a(PQKB)11051727 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301235 035 $a(DE-B1597)209831 035 $a(OCoLC)979574396 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674076280 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301235 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10664491 035 $a(OCoLC)828868909 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038969 100 $a20120820d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHomer's Turk$b[electronic resource] $ehow classics shaped ideas of the East /$fJerry Toner 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-07314-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tPart I: Contexts -- $t1 Classicizing Orientalisms -- $t2 The Uses of Classics -- $t3 Classics and Medieval Images of Islam -- $tPart II: Texts -- $t4 Traders and Travelers -- $t5 Gibbon's Islam -- $t6 The Roman Raj -- $t7 Empires Ancient and Modern -- $t8 Colonial Adventures -- $tPart III: Afterwords -- $t9 Screen Classics -- $t10 America Roma Nova -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aA seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to touchstones like the Iliad to explain the exotic customs of Ottoman lands. His Turk would have been Homer's Turk. An account of epic sweep, spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer's Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on the Classics to help them understand the world once called "the Orient." Ancient Greek and Roman authors, Jerry Toner shows, served as a conceptual frame of reference over long periods in which trade, religious missions, and imperial interests shaped English encounters with the East. Rivaling the Bible as a widespread, flexible vehicle of Western thought, the Classics provided a ready model for portrayal and understanding of the Oriental Other. Such image-making, Toner argues, persists today in some of the ways the West frames its relationship with the Islamic world and the rising powers of India and China. Discussing examples that range from Jacobean travelogues to Hollywood blockbusters, Homer's Turk proves that there is no permanent version of either the ancient past or the East in English writing-the two have been continually reinvented alongside each other. 606 $aClassical literature$xInfluence 606 $aHistoriography$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aOrientalism$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aTravel writing$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aOrient$xDescription and travel$xEarly works to 1800 607 $aOrient$xHistoriography$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aClassical literature$xInfluence. 615 0$aHistoriography$xHistory. 615 0$aOrientalism$xHistory. 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 676 $a950.072/041 700 $aToner$b J. P$01031474 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452639703321 996 $aHomer's Turk$92448879 997 $aUNINA