Telling true tales of Islamic lands : forms of mediation in English travel writing, 1575-1630 / Julia Schleck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schleck, Julia, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, English.

English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

British--Foreign countries--History--16th century.

British.

British--Foreign countries--History--17th century.

Islam in literature.

Cultural relations in literature.

British--Foreign countries.

History.

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, [2011]

Summary:

To investigate how writers set about discerning and representing the truth about Islamic lands, Schleck (U. of Nebraska-Lincoln) examines the mediating role played by the rhetorical crafting, generic negotiations between author and readers, and publication histories of several early modern English accounts of Islamic cultures. She formally analyzes each text to reveal its place in the domestic book economy and in the social sphere of its author, to show how each of them functions as a social document and as part of an emerging genre. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Waste and empire : George Sandys' relation of a journey begun in 1610 and the successful gentleman traveler

"The robe of truth" : fabricating credit from the Sherley Brothers' travels to Persia and the Ottoman Empire

True news from the islamic world

Turks and their paratexts: the captivity of Thomas Saunders and the ideology of form

Determining the facts of the matter : merchant letters and the principall navigations

Postscript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781575911588

1575911582

OCLC:

682145445