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

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21422-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 209, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kugler, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The ‘Other’ England: Ottoman Influence on English Identity

PART ONE
1. Captivity Apostasy and Imperial Anxieties: English Fantasies and Fears of the Ottoman Influence
2. Arabic Castaways in the High and Low Churches: Debating English Protestantism in the Seventeenth-Century Ibn Tufayl Translations
3. The Ottoman Influence in Robinson Crusoe: Failures of English Imperial Identity

PART TWO
4. Race and Romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the Decline of the Ottoman Influence
5. “I Am Not What I Am”: Reimagining Shakespeare‘s Moor of Venice
6. Oriental Princes and Noble Slaves: Romance Models of Race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788

Conclusion: The Continued Anxieties of Empire: After the Ottoman Influence
Bibliography
Name Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kugler, Emily
Emily M.N. Kugler, B.A. Scripps Women's College and Ph.D from University of California San Diego, is Assistant Professor of British Eighteenth-Century literature at Colby College. Through an interdisciplinary approach to Eighteenth-Century Studies, she focuses on the migration of cultural ideas across geographic, socio-economic, and temporal spaces. Her work draws on cultural histories of the Transatlantic, the Ottoman Empire, Central and Western Europe, as well as East Asia.

Emily M.N. Kugler, B.A. Scripps Women's College and Ph.D from University of California San Diego, is Assistant Professor of British Eighteenth-Century literature at Colby College. Through an interdisciplinary approach to Eighteenth-Century Studies, she focuses on the migration of cultural ideas across geographic, socio-economic, and temporal spaces. Her work draws on cultural histories of the Transatlantic, the Ottoman Empire, Central and Western Europe, as well as East Asia.