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Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings.
Title:
Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings.
Author:
Stanivukovic, Goran V.
ISBN:
9780230601840
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Series:
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Contents:
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 Moor -- 6 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 England -- Afterword -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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