Remapping the Mediterranean world in early modern English writings [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Goran V. Stanivukovic

• Pubblicazione: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9321822
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Mediterranean influences; English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Multiculturalism in literature; Imperialism in literature; Mercantile system in literature; English literature - Turkic influences; Islam in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Mediterranean Region In literature; Turkey In literature; Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Altri autori: StanivukovicGoran V
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings; 1 Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean; 2 Poisoned Figs, or "The Traveler's Religion": Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture; 3 Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances; 4 Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War ; 5 The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor6 Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar; 7 Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between; 8 "Come from Turkie": Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London; 9 Barnaby Riche's Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is "The Turk"?; 10 Theaters of Empire in Milton's Epics; 11 Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes; 12 Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and Tangier Papers ; 13 From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern EnglandAfterword; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries.
• Titolo autorizzato: Remapping the Mediterranean world in early modern English writings
• ISBN: 1-281-36134-8; 9786611361341; 0-230-60184-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784249903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Early modern cultural studies.