Looking East

English Writing and the Ottoman Empire Before 1800

By: Gerald MacLean

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Hardcover | 15 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Looking East explores early modern English attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. To a nation just arriving on the international scene, the Ottoman Empire was at once the great enemy and scourge of Christendom, and at the same time the fabulously wealthy and magnificent court from which the sultan ruled over three continents with his great and powerful army. By taking the imaginative, literary and poetic writing about the Ottoman Turks and putting it alongside contemporary historical documents, the book shows that fascination with the Ottoman Empire shaped how the English thought about and represented their own place within the world as a nation with increasing imperial ambitions of its own.

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'Looking East sweeps aside the distortions of centuries of national history to reveal how our identity has been shaped by the myriad contacts between Britons and Ottomans' - Dr Caroline Finkel, author of Osman's Dream: A History of the Ottoman Empire

'Looking East is a major contribution to the scholarship on English- and Scottish- interaction with the Ottoman world. The picture Gerald MacLean presents is far more complex and interesting than the somewhat simplistic image of East-West relations usually given by Edward Said and his followers. Instead of the old model of a straightforward binary dualism, MacLean has followed in the footsteps of Nabil Matar to present a Mediterranean world where what he calls 'mutuality, dialogue and reciprocity' predominate and where a significant number of Englishmen Turn'd Turk. This scholarly, surprising, erudite and quizzically humourous book looks set to change the way we think about early British interaction with the Muslim world.' - William Dalrymple, author of In Xanadu and From the Holy Mountain

'succinct and accessible Maclean continues to alert us to fascinating materials in the archive.' Ros Ballaster, Review of English Studies

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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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