Looking East English Writing and the Ottoman Empire Before 1800

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This book explores early modern English attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century.

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List of Figures	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Map of Ottoman Empire	p. xiv
Introduction: Islam, the Ottomans and Early Modern England	p. 1
Beginnings
The English Encounter the Ottoman World	p. 27
The English Abroad: Travellers, Traders, Captives and Colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean	p. 62
Performing East and Captive Agency	p. 97
Writing the Ottoman World
On Turning Turk, or Trying to: Robert Daborne's A Christian Turn'd Turke	p. 123
The Sultan's Beasts: Encountering Ottoman Fauna	p. 145
The Making of the British Imperial Subject	p. 174
Some Literary Impacts
Learn of a Turk: Restoration Culture and the Ottoman Empire	p. 201
A View from the West: Young American Writing about the Maghrib	p. 218
A View from the East: Don Juan in England	p. 230
Epilogue: By Way of Conclusion	p. 245
Notes	p. 247
Works Cited	p. 270
Index	p. 290
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