Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century

• Main Author: Kugler, Emily M.N
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2012; BRILL
• Edition: 1
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
• Subjects: England > Civilization > 18th century; Great Britain > History > 18th century; Imperialism; Imperialism > History > 18th century; National characteristics, English; National characteristics, English > History > 18th century; Public opinion; Public opinion > Great Britain; Turkey; Turkey > Foreign public opinion, British; Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 > Public opinion; Turkeys-Foreign public opinion, British

By focusing on eighteenth-century English textual representations of the Ottomans, 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.

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The 'Other' England: Ottoman Influence on English Identity -- Part One -- Chapter One Captivity, Apostasy, and Imperial Anxieties: English Fantasies and Fears of the Ottoman Influence -- Chapter Two Arabic Castaways in the High and Low Churches: Debating English Protestantism in the Seventeenth-Century Ibn Tufayl Translations -- Chapter Three The Ottoman Influence in Robinson Crusoe: Failures of English Imperial Identity -- Part Two -- Chapter Four Race and Romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the Decline of the Ottoman Influence -- Chapter Five "I Am Not What I Am": Reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787 -- Chapter Six Oriental Princes and Noble Slaves: Romance Models of Race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788 -- Conclusion: The Continued Anxieties of Empire: After the Ottoman Influence -- Bibliography -- Index